Genesis 21
1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
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 to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
7 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.
She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?”
8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.
and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
10 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.
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 And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.
And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
12 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.
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 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”
14 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.
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 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
16 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.
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 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.
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 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him 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 made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin 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 became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
21 And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife 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 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.
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, 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.
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 said, I will give you my oath.
And Abraham says, “I swear.”
25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,
26 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.
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 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
28 And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?
And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.
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 he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
32 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.
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, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to 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 went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.
and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
