Genesis 21
Isaac Is Born
1 aThen the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had ▼▼ Lit spoken
promised. 2 cSo Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at dthe appointed time of which God had spoken to him. 3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, eIsaac. 4Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was feight days old, as God had commanded him. 5Now Abraham was gone hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6Sarah said, “God has made hlaughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh ▼▼ Lit for
with me.” 7And she said, j“Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” 8The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. Sarah Turns against Hagar
9Now Sarah saw kthe son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, ▼▼ Or playing
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mmocking. 10Therefore she said to Abraham, n“Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son ▼▼ Lit with Isaac
Isaac.” 11 pThe matter ▼▼ Lit was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
distressed Abraham greatly because of his son. 12But God said to Abraham, ▼▼ Lit Do not let it be grievous in your sight
“Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for sthrough Isaac ▼▼ Lit your seed will be called
your descendants shall be named. 13“And of uthe son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your ▼▼ Lit seed
descendant.” 14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a ▼▼ I.e. a skin used as a bottle
skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15When the water in the skin was used up, she ▼▼ Lit cast
left the boy under one of the bushes. 16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me ▼▼ Lit look upon the death of the child
see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and zlifted up her voice and wept. 17God aaheard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? abDo not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18“Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by ▼▼ Lit your
the hand, adfor I will make a great nation of him.” 19Then God aeopened her eyes and she saw afa well of water; and she went and filled the ▼▼ V 14, note 1
skin with water and gave the lad a drink. 20 ahGod was with the lad, and he grew; and he ▼▼ Lit dwelt
lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21 ajHe ▼▼ Lit dwelt
lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. Covenant with Abimelech
22Now it came about at that time that alAbimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, am“God is with you in all that you do; 23now therefore, answear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.” 24Abraham said, “I swear it.” 25But Abraham ▼▼ Lit reproved
complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech aphad seized. 26And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it ▼▼ Lit except
until today.” 27Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and arthe two of them made a covenant. 28Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?” 30He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a aswitness to me, that I dug this well.” 31Therefore he called that place atBeersheba, because there the two of them took an oath. 32So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines. 33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there auhe called on the name of the Lord, the avEverlasting God. 34And Abraham sojourned awin the land of the Philistines for many days.
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