Genesis 21
1 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.
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 called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
5 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father was Isaac born.
And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
7 And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him 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 And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;
9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:
and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
10 Cast out this bondwoman, and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir 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 Abraham took this grievously for his son.
And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
12 And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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 make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.
As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”
14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
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 the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.
and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, 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 And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.
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 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make 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 And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to 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 him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.
and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of 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 the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.
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 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
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 swear.
And Abraham says, “I swear.”
25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,
26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till 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 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.
And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
28 And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.
and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?
And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, 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 Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because there both of them did swear.
therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
32 And they made a league for the well of oath.
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 Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;
34 And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.
and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
