1 And the
LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had
spoken.
2 For Sarah
conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him.
3 And
Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to
him, Isaac.
4 And
Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And
Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah
said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
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. I have born a child in my old age.
8 And the
child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that
Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah
saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking, sporting with Isaac her son.
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.
11 And the
thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
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.
13 And also
of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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
Beer-sheba, near the well of the oath.
15 And the
water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs, under a fir tree.
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 [and
the child cried aloud and wept].
17 And God
heard the voice of the lad from the place
where he was; and the angel of God [an
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.
18 Arise,
lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great
nation.
19 And God
opened her eyes, and she saw a well of springing
water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20 And God
was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an
archer.
21 And he
dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the
land of Egypt.
22 And it
came to pass at that time, that Abimelech spoke,
and Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake
unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee all
things, in all that thou doest:
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, that
thou wilt not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name; but according to the
kindness, the righteousness, that I
have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast
sojourned.
24 And
Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And
Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water [the wells of water], which Abimelech’s servants had violently
taken away.
26 And
Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing to thee: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it,
but to day.
27 And
Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them
made a covenant.
28 And
Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast
set by themselves?
30 And he, Abraam, 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.
31 Wherefore
he called that place Beer-sheba, The Well
of the Oath; because there they sware both of them.
32 Thus they
made a covenant at Beer-sheba, at the
Well of the Oath; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of
his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 And
Abraham planted a grove [a field] in
Beer-sheba, at the Well of the Oath, and
called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
34 And
Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
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