      | ¶ | And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. | |
 | For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. | ||
| And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. | ||
| And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. | ||
| And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. | ||
| And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that hear will laugh with me. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ¶ | And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned. | |
| And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he [is] thy seed. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ¶ | And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. | |
| 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 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]. | ||
| Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. | ||
| And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. | ||
| ¶ | 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: | |
| 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. | ||
 | And Abraham said, I will swear. | ||
| ¶ | And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. | |
| 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. | ||
| And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. | ||
| And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. | ||
| And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. | ||
| And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. |
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Genesis - Chapter 21
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