Genesis 21
1Then the Lord visited Sarah, just as he had promised; and he fulfilled what he had spoken.
2And she conceived and gave birth to a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold to her.
3And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sarah bore for him, Isaac.
4And he circumcised him on the eighth day, just as God had instructed him,
5when he was one hundred years old. Indeed, at this stage of his father’s life, Isaac was born.
6And Sarah said: “God has brought laughter to me. Whoever will hear of it will laugh with me.”
7And again, she said: “Hearing this, who would believe Abraham, that Sarah breast-fed a son, to whom she gave birth, despite being elderly?”
8And the boy grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
9And when Sarah had seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with her son Isaac, she said to Abraham:
10“Cast out this woman servant and her son. For the son of a woman servant will not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11Abraham took this grievously, for the sake of his son.
12And God said to him: “Let it not seem harsh to you concerning the boy and your woman servant. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.
13Yet I will also make the son of the woman servant into a great nation, for he is your offspring.”
14And so Abraham arose in the morning, and taking bread and a skin of water, he placed it upon her shoulder, and he handed over the boy, and he released her. And when she had departed, she wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15And when the water in the skin had been consumed, she set aside the boy, under one of the trees that were there.
16And she moved away and sat in a distant area, as far as a bow can reach. For she said, “I shall not see the boy die.” And so, sitting opposite her, he lifted up his voice and wept.
17But God heard the voice of the boy. And an Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, saying: “What are you doing, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heeded the voice of the boy, from the place where he is.
18Rise up. Take the boy and hold him by the hand. For I will make of him a great nation.”
19And God opened her eyes. And seeing a well of water, she went and filled the skin, and she gave the boy to drink.
20And God was with him. And he grew, and he stayed in the wilderness, and he became a young man, an archer.
21And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22At the same time, Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, said to Abraham: “God is with you in everything that you do.
23Therefore, swear by God that you will do no harm to me, and to my posterity, and to my stock. But according to the mercy that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land, to which you have turned as a newcomer.”
24And Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25And he reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
26And Abimelech responded, “I do not know who did this thing, but you also did not reveal it to me, nor have I heard of it, before today.”
27And so Abraham took sheep and oxen, and he gave them to Abimelech. And both of them struck a pact.
28And Abraham set aside seven female lambs from the flock.
29Abimelech said to him, “What purpose have these seven female lambs, which you have caused to stand separately?”
30But he said, “You will receive seven female lambs from my hand, so that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.”
31For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.
32And they initiated a pact on behalf of the well of oath.
33Then Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, rose up, and they returned to the land of the Palestinians. In truth, Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord God Eternal.
34And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.
1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
8And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
15And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
17And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
19And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
23Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24And Abraham said, I will swear.
25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
32Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.