But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will …

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, …

Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do …

“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear …

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. …

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with …

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if …

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives …

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household …

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to …

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has …