Genesis 21
1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
7 She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
And 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.
8 So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.
10 and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
So 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.
11 Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
But 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.
13 But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
14 Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
And 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.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
16 Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
And 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.
17 Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
And 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.
18 Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.
19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.
20 And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
21 And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
Now 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.
23 Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
Now, 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.
24 And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.
25 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
26 Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
But 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.
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
28 Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
29 and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?
30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.
31 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
32 After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
34 And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.
