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Genesis 16:13

13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” ^{▼▼ Heb “God of my seeing.” The pronominal suffix may be understood either as objective (“who sees me,” as in the translation) or subjective (“whom I see”).} for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” ^{▼▼ Heb “after one who sees me.”} ^{▼▼ For a discussion of Hagar’s exclamation, see T. Booij, “Hagar’s Words in Genesis 16:13b, ” VT 30 (1980): 1-7.}