Genesis 21

Genesis 21:1-34

[1]And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

[2]And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

[3]And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

[4]And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

[5]And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

[6]And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

[7]And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.

[8]And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

[9]And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

[10]And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son--with Isaac.

[11]And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

[12]And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: in all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

[13]But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

[14]And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder--and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

[15]And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,

[16]and she went and sat down over against him, a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

[17]And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is.

[18]Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.

[19]And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad drink.

[20]And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he 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, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

[23]And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.

[24]And Abraham said, I will swear.

[25]And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

[26]And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me of it, neither have I heard of it but to-day.

[27]And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

[28]And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

[29]And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?

[30]And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

[31]Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

[32]And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.

[33]And Abraham planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal ·God

[34]And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.