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The First Book of Moses, Called
Genesis
CHAPTER 21.
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 when he was 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; 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.
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, at play with her son Isaac.
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 Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way
off, as it were a bow shot: 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.
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.
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 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 and Phicol
the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God
is with thee 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:
but according to the kindness 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,
which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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.
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 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 Beersheba; because there they
sware both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose
up, and Phicol the chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, 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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