Genesis 21
1 And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
Then the Lord visited Sarah, just as he had promised; and he fulfilled what he had spoken.
2 and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;
And she conceived and gave birth to a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold to her.
3 and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sarah bore for him, Isaac.
4 and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
And he circumcised him on the eighth day, just as God had instructed him,
5 And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
when he was one hundred years old. Indeed, at this stage of his father’s life, Isaac was born.
6 and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
And Sarah said: “God has brought laughter to me. Whoever will hear of it will laugh with me.”
7 She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?”
And again, she said: “Hearing this, who would believe Abraham, that Sarah breast-fed a son, to whom she gave birth, despite being elderly?”
8 And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;
And the boy grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
9 and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
And when Sarah had seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with her son Isaac, she said to Abraham:
10 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.”
“Cast out this woman servant and her son. For the son of a woman servant will not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11 And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
Abraham took this grievously, for the sake of his son.
12 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.
And God said to him: “Let it not seem harsh to you concerning the boy and your woman servant. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.
13 As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”
Yet I will also make the son of the woman servant into a great nation, for he is your offspring.”
14 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;
And so Abraham arose in the morning, and taking bread and a skin of water, he placed it upon her shoulder, and he handed over the boy, and he released her. And when she had departed, she wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
And when the water in the skin had been consumed, she set aside the boy, under one of the trees that were there.
16 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.
And she moved away and sat in a distant area, as far as a bow can reach. For she said, “I shall not see the boy die.” And so, sitting opposite her, he lifted up his voice and wept.
17 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];
But God heard the voice of the boy. And an Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, saying: “What are you doing, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heeded the voice of the boy, from the place where he is.
18 rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for a great nation.”
Rise up. Take the boy and hold him by the hand. For I will make of him a great nation.”
19 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;
And God opened her eyes. And seeing a well of water, she went and filled the skin, and she gave the boy to drink.
20 and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
And God was with him. And he grew, and he stayed in the wilderness, and he became a young man, an archer.
21 and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt.
And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22 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;
At the same time, Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, said to Abraham: “God is with you in everything that you do.
23 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.”
Therefore, swear by God that you will do no harm to me, and to my posterity, and to my stock. But according to the mercy that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land, to which you have turned as a newcomer.”
24 And Abraham says, “I swear.”
And Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,
And he reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
26 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.”
And Abimelech responded, “I do not know who did this thing, but you also did not reveal it to me, nor have I heard of it, before today.”
27 And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
And so Abraham took sheep and oxen, and he gave them to Abimelech. And both of them struck a pact.
28 and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
And Abraham set aside seven female lambs from the flock.
29 And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
Abimelech said to him, “What purpose have these seven female lambs, which you have caused to stand separately?”
30 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”;
But he said, “You will receive seven female lambs from my hand, so that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.”
31 therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.
32 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;
And they initiated a pact on behalf of the well of oath.
33 and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;
Then Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, rose up, and they returned to the land of the Palestinians. In truth, Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord God Eternal.
34 and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.
