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RBT Translation:
And a messenger of Yahweh is saying to her, `Abounding I am abounding your seed, and he is not being recorded from an abundance.`601
LITV Translation:
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
ESV Translation:
The angel of the LORD also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

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Hebrew הַרְבָּ֤ה אַרְבֶּה֙, harbah arbeh. Abounding I am abounding. The same phrase is found in only one other place:

Toward the Woman he has said, `Abounding I am abounding your painful one and your conceiving one, in pain are you bearing builders…” Genesis 3:16 literal

The dust are “counted” (Gen. 13:16), the stars are “recorded” (Gen. 15:5), and the seed of Hagar are “not recorded”.