GE-21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD
did unto
Sarah as he had spoken.
GE-21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old
age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to him.
GE-21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born
unto him, whom
Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
GE-21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days
old, as God
had commanded him.
GE-21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born
unto him.
GE-21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that]
all that hear
will laugh with me.
GE-21:7 And 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.
GE-21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a
great feast
the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.
GE-21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she
had born unto
Abraham, mocking.
GE-21:10 Wherefore 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.
GE-21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight
because of his
son.
GE-21:12 And 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.
GE-21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a
nation, because
he [is] thy seed.
GE-21:14 And 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 Beersheba.
GE-21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast
the child under
one of the shrubs.
GE-21:16 And 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.
GE-21:17 And 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].
GE-21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand;
for I will make
him a great nation.
GE-21:19 And 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.
GE-21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in
the wilderness,
and became an archer.
GE-21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a
wife out of the land of Egypt.
GE-21:22 And 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:
GE-21:23 Now 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.
GE-21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
GE-21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of
water, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
GE-21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing:
neither
didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day.
GE-21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and
both of them made a covenant.
GE-21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
GE-21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these
seven ewe lambs
which thou hast set by themselves?
GE-21:30 And 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.
GE-21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because
there they sware
both of them.
GE-21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech
rose up, and
Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into
the land of the
Philistines.
GE-21:33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called
there on the
name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
GE-21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many
days.
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