Bible: Numbers 14:2, 27, 29, 36; 16:11, 41; 17:5, 10

14:2 And all the Israelites murmured 1  against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died 2  in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished 3  in this wilderness! 14:27 “How long must I bear 4  with this evil congregation 5  that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 14:29 Your dead bodies 6  will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

14:36 The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing 7  an evil report about the land,

16:11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her,

“You are now 1  pregnant

and are about to give birth 2  to a son.

You are to name him Ishmael, 3 

for the Lord has heard your painful groans. 4 

The Birth of Ishmael

16:1 Now Sarai, 5  Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, 6  but she had an Egyptian servant 7  named Hagar. 8 

17:5 No longer will your name be 1  Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham 2  because I will make you 3  the father of a multitude of nations. 17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: 4  Every male among you must be circumcised. 5 
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