Genesis 21
1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;
3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for 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.”
She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?”
8 So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;
9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
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!”
and she says to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid has no possession with my son—with Isaac.”
11 Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
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.
and God says to Abraham, “Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the youth, and because of your handmaid: all that Sarah says to you—listen to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to you.
13 But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, 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 Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the boy, and sends her out; and she goes on, and goes astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
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 goes and sits by herself opposite [him], far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the boy”; and she sits opposite [him], and lifts up her voice, and weeps.
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 God hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calls to Hagar from the heavens and says to her, “What to you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of the youth where he [is];
18 Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for 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.
And God opens her eyes, and she sees a well of water, and she goes and fills the bottle [with] water, and causes the youth to drink;
20 And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
21 And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for 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.
And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, “God [is] with you in all that you are doing;
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.”
and now, swear to me by God here: you do not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with you—do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned.”
24 And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
And Abraham says, “I swear.”
25 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,
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.”
and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
28 Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that I have dug this well”;
31 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
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.
And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech rises—Phichol also, head of his host—and they return 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] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;
34 And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
