| 21 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | The LORD showed favour to Sarah as he had promised, and made good what he had said about her. | The birth of Isaac. Gn.21.1-8 | |
| 2 | She conceived and bore a son to Abraham for his old age, at the time which God had appointed. | ||
| 3 | The son whom Sarah bore to him, Abraham named Isaac . | ||
| 4 | When Isaac was eight days old Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded. | ||
| 5 | Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. | ||
| 6 | Sarah said, 'God has given me good reason to laugh, and everybody who hears will laugh with me.' | ||
| 7 | She said, 'Whoever would have told Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son for his old age.' | ||
| 8 | The boy grew and was weaned, and on the day of his weaning Abraham gave a feast. | Hagar and Ishmael are sent away. Gn.21.8-21 | |
| 9 | Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham laughing at him, | ||
| 10 | and she said to Abraham, 'Drive out this slave-girl and her son; I will not have this slave-girl's son sharing the inheritance with my son Isaac.' | ||
| 11 | Abraham was vexed at this on his son Ishmael's account, | ||
| 12 | but God said to him, 'Do not be vexed on account of the boy and the slave-girl. Do what Sarah says, because you shall have descendants through Isaac. | ||
| 13 | I will make a great nation of the slave-girl's son too, because he is your own child.' | ||
| 14 | Abraham rose early in the morning, took some food and a waterskin full of water and gave it to Hagar; he set the child on her shoulder and sent her away, and she went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. | ||
| 15 | When the water in the skin was finished, she thrust the child under a bush, | ||
| 16 | and went and sat down some way off, about two bowshots away, for she said, 'How can I watch the child die?' So she sat some way off, weeping bitterly. | ||
| 17 | God heard the child crying, and the angel of God called from heaven to Hagar, 'What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid: God has heard the child crying where you laid him. | ||
| 18 | Get to your feet, lift the child up and hold him in your arms, because I will make of him a great nation.' | ||
| 19 | Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well full of water; she went to it, ?lled her waterskin and gave the child a drink. | ||
| 20 | (20-21) God was with the child, and he grew up and lived in the wilderness of Paran. He became an archer, and his mother found him a wife from Egypt. | ||
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| 22 | Now about that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, addressed Abraham in these terms: 'God is with you in all that you do. | Beersheba - Abraham's agreement with Abimelech. Gn.21.22-34 | |
| 23 | Now swear an oath to me in the name of God, that you will not break faith with me, my offspring, or my descendants. As I have kept faith with you, so shall you keep faith with me and with the country where you have come to live as an alien.' | ||
| 24 | Abraham said, 'I swear.' | ||
| 25 | It happened that Abraham had a complaint against Abimelech about a well which Abimelech's men had seized. | ||
| 26 | Abimelech said, 'I do not know who did this. You never told me, and I have heard nothing about it till now.' | ||
| 27 | So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech; and the two of them made a pact. | ||
| 28 | Abraham set seven ewe-lambs apart, and when | ||
| 29 | Abimelech asked him why he had set these lambs apart, | ||
| 30 | he said, 'Accept these from me in token that I dug this well.' | ||
| 31 | Therefore that place was called Beersheba , because there the two of them swore an oath. | ||
| 32 | When they had made the pact at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army returned at once to the country of the Philistines, and | ||
| 33 | Abraham planted a strip of ground at Beersheba. There he invoked the LORD, the everlasting God, by name, | ||
| 34 | and he lived as an alien in the country of the Philistines for many a year. | ||
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