Genesis 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Isaac Is Born

(Heb 11:11 )

Gen 21:1Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had [fn]promised.

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

Gen 21:3

Gen 21:3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Gen 21:4

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

Gen 21:5

Gen 21:5Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Gen 21:6

Gen 21:6Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh [fn]with me.”

Gen 21:7

Gen 21:7And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet 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, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Sarah Turns against Hagar

Gen 21:9

Gen 21:9Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, [fn]mocking.

Gen 21:10

Gen 21:10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son [fn]Isaac.”

Gen 21:11

Gen 21:11The matter [fn]distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.

Gen 21:12

Gen 21:12But God said to Abraham, “[fn]Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac [fn]your descendants shall be named.

Gen 21:13

Gen 21:13“And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your [fn]descendant.”

Gen 21:14

Gen 21:14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a [fn]skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Gen 21:15

Gen 21:15When the water in the skin was used up, she [fn]left the boy under one of the bushes.

Gen 21:16

Gen 21:16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me [fn]see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

Gen 21:17

Gen 21:17God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Gen 21:18

Gen 21:18“Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by [fn]the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

Gen 21:19

Gen 21:19Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [fn]skin with water and gave the lad a drink.

Gen 21:20

Gen 21:20God was with the lad, and he grew; and he [fn]lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

Gen 21:21

Gen 21:21He [fn]lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Covenant with Abimelech

Gen 21:22

Gen 21:22Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, 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 or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”

Gen 21:24

Gen 21:24Abraham said, “I swear it.”

Gen 21:25

Gen 21:25But Abraham [fn]complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

Gen 21:26

Gen 21:26And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it [fn]until today.”

Gen 21:27

Gen 21:27Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

Gen 21:28

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

Gen 21:29

Gen 21:29Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

Gen 21:30

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

Gen 21:31

Gen 21:31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

Gen 21:32

Gen 21:32So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Gen 21:33

Gen 21:33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Gen 21:34

Gen 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

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NASB95 Footnotes

Literally: spoken

Literally: for

Or, playing

Literally: with Isaac

(21:11)

Literally: was very grievous in Abraham's sight

(21:12)

Literally: Do not let it be grievous in your sight

(21:12)

Literally: your seed will be called

(21:13)

Literally: seed

(21:14)

I.e. a skin used as a bottle

(21:15)

Literally: cast

(21:16)

Literally: look upon the death of the child

Literally: your

V 14, note 1

Literally: dwelt

Literally: dwelt

Literally: reproved

(21:26)

Literally: except

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