Genesis 21 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Isaac Is Born

(Heb 11:11 )

Gen 21:1

Gen 21:1The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Gen 21:2

Gen 21:2Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Gen 21:3

Gen 21:3Avraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Yitzchak.

Gen 21:4

Gen 21:4Avraham circumcised his son, Yitzchak, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Gen 21:5

Gen 21:5Avraham was one hundred years old when his son, Yitzchak, was born to him.

Gen 21:6

Gen 21:6Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

Gen 21:7

Gen 21:7She said, "Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

(Gal 4:21–30 )

Gen 21:8

Gen 21:8The child grew, and was weaned. Avraham made a great feast on the day that Yitzchak was weaned.

Sarah Turns against Hagar

Gen 21:9

Gen 21:9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Mitzrian, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking.

Gen 21:10

Gen 21:10Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Yitzchak."

Gen 21:11

Gen 21:11The thing was very grievous in Avraham's sight on account of his son.

Gen 21:12

Gen 21:12God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.

Gen 21:13

Gen 21:13Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."

Gen 21:14

Gen 21:14Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.

Gen 21:15

Gen 21:15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Gen 21:16

Gen 21:16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Gen 21:17

Gen 21:17God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Gen 21:18

Gen 21:18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

Gen 21:19

Gen 21:19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

Gen 21:20

Gen 21:20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

Gen 21:21

Gen 21:21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Mitzrayim.

Covenant with Abimelech

Gen 21:22

Gen 21:22It happened at that time, that Avimelekh and Pikhol the captain of his host spoke to Avraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

Gen 21:23

Gen 21:23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

Gen 21:24

Gen 21:24Avraham said, "I will swear."

Gen 21:25

Gen 21:25Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.

Gen 21:26

Gen 21:26Avimelekh said, I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

Gen 21:27

Gen 21:27Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Avimelekh. Those two made a covenant.

Gen 21:28

Gen 21:28Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Gen 21:29

Gen 21:29Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

Gen 21:30

Gen 21:30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

Gen 21:31

Gen 21:31Therefore he called that place Be'er-Sheva, because they both swore there.

Gen 21:32

Gen 21:32So they made a covenant at Be'er-Sheva. Avimelekh rose up with Pikhol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Pelishtim.

Gen 21:33

Gen 21:33Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheva, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Gen 21:34

Gen 21:34Avraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Pelishtim many days.

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