Genesis 21 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Isaac Is Born

(Heb 11:11 )

Gen 21:1

Gen 21:1And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

Gen 21:2

Gen 21:2And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

Gen 21:3

Gen 21:3And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

Gen 21:4

Gen 21:4And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

Gen 21:5

Gen 21:5Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

Gen 21:6

Gen 21:6And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Gen 21:7

Gen 21:7And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

(Gal 4:21–30 )

Gen 21:8

Gen 21:8And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

Sarah Turns against Hagar

Gen 21:9

Gen 21:9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

Gen 21:10

Gen 21:10So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

Gen 21:11

Gen 21:11And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

Gen 21:12

Gen 21:12But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

Gen 21:13

Gen 21:13And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

Gen 21:14

Gen 21:14And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Gen 21:15

Gen 21:15And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

Gen 21:16

Gen 21:16And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

Gen 21:17

Gen 21:17And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

Gen 21:18

Gen 21:18Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

Gen 21:19

Gen 21:19Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

Gen 21:20

Gen 21:20And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

Gen 21:21

Gen 21:21And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Covenant with Abimelech

Gen 21:22

Gen 21:22Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

Gen 21:23

Gen 21:23Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

Gen 21:24

Gen 21:24And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

Gen 21:25

Gen 21:25But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

Gen 21:26

Gen 21:26But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

Gen 21:27

Gen 21:27And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

Gen 21:28

Gen 21:28And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

Gen 21:29

Gen 21:29Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

Gen 21:30

Gen 21:30And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

Gen 21:31

Gen 21:31So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Gen 21:32

Gen 21:32So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

Gen 21:33

Gen 21:33And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Gen 21:34

Gen 21:34And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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