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1 The
LORD visited Sarah
as he had
said, and the
LORD did to
Sarah as he
had spoken.
2 Sarah
conceived, and
bore Abraham a son
in his old
age, at the
set time of
which God had
spoken to him.
3 Abraham
called his son
who was born
to him, whom
Sarah bore to
him, Isaac.
4 Abraham
circumcised his
son, Isaac, when
he was eight
days old, as God
had commanded him.
5 Abraham was
one hundred years
old when his
son, Isaac, was
born to him.
6 Sarah
said, “God has
made me laugh.
Everyone who hears
will laugh with
me.”
7 She
said, “Who would
have said
to Abraham that
Sarah would nurse
children? For I
have borne him
a son in
his old age.”
8 The
child grew and
was weaned. Abraham
made a great
feast on the
day that Isaac
was weaned.
9 Sarah
saw the son
of Hagar the
Egyptian, whom she had
borne to Abraham,
mocking.
10 Therefore
she said to Abraham, “Cast
out this servant
and her son!
For the son
of this servant
will not be
heir with my
son, Isaac.”
11 The
thing was
very grievous in Abraham’s
sight on account
of his son.
12 God said
to Abraham, “Don’t let it
be grievous in
your sight because
of the boy,
and because of
your servant. In
all that Sarah says
to you, listen
to her voice.
For your offspring
will be named
through Isaac.
13 I
will also make
a nation of
the son of
the servant, because
he is your
child.”
14 Abraham
rose up early
in the morning,
and took bread
and a container of
water, and gave
it to Hagar,
putting it on
her shoulder; and
gave her the
child, and sent
her away. She
departed, and
wandered in the
wilderness of Beersheba.
15 The
water in
the container was
spent, and she put
the child under
one of the
shrubs.
16 She
went and sat
down opposite him,
a good way
off, about a
bow shot away. For
she said, “Don’t let
me see the
death of the
child.” She sat
opposite him, and
lifted up her
voice, and wept.
17 God
heard the voice
of the boy.
The angel of
God called to
Hagar out of
the sky, and
said to her, “What
troubles you, Hagar? Don’t
be afraid. For
God has heard
the voice of
the boy where
he is.
18 Get
up, lift up
the boy, and
hold him with
your hand. For
I will make
him a great
nation.”
19 God opened
her eyes, and
she saw a
well of water.
She went, filled
the container with
water, and gave
the boy a
drink.
20 God was
with the boy,
and he grew.
He lived in
the wilderness,
and as he
grew up, he
became an archer.
21 He
lived in the
wilderness of
Paran. His mother
got a wife for
him out of
the land of Egypt.
22 At
that time, Abimelech
and Phicol the
captain of his
army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God
is with you
in all that
you do.
23 Now,
therefore, swear
to me here
by God that you
will not deal
falsely with me,
nor with my
son, nor with
my son’s son.
But according to
the kindness that
I have done
to you, you
shall do to
me, and to
the land in which
you have lived
as a foreigner.”
24 Abraham said, “I
will swear.”
25 Abraham
complained to Abimelech
because of a
water well, which Abimelech’s
servants had violently
taken away.
26 Abimelech
said, “I don’t
know who has
done this thing.
You didn’t tell me,
and I didn’t hear
of it until
today.”
27 Abraham
took sheep and
cattle, and gave
them to Abimelech. Those
two made a
covenant.
28 Abraham set
seven ewe lambs
of the flock
by themselves.
29 Abimelech said
to Abraham, “What
do these seven
ewe lambs, which
you have set
by themselves, mean?”
30 He said, “You
shall take these
seven ewe lambs
from my hand,
that it may
be a witness
to me, that
I have dug
this well.”
31 Therefore
he called that
place Beersheba,
because they both
swore an oath
there.
32 So
they made a
covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech
rose up with
Phicol, the
captain of his
army, and they
returned into
the land of the
Philistines.
33 Abraham
planted a tamarisk tree
in Beersheba, and
there he called
on the name
of the LORD,
the Everlasting
God.
34 Abraham
lived as
a foreigner in
the land of the
Philistines many
days.