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# raise up the lad
"help the boy stand up"
# I will make him into a great nation
To make Ishmael into a great nation means God will give him many descendants who will become a great nation. Alternate translation: "I will make his descendants become a great nation" or "I will make him become the ancestor of a great nation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])