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As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
2068. And she shall be for nations. That this signifies the goods thence derived, is evident from the signification of “nations,” as being goods (see Part First, n. 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849).
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