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CHAPTER 21

1
Now the LORD
attended
to Sarah
as
He had said,
and the LORD
did
for Sarah
what
He had promised.
2
So Sarah
conceived
and bore
a son
to Abraham
in his old age,
at the very time
God
had promised him.
3
And Abraham
gave
the name
Isaac
to the son
Sarah
bore
to him.
4
When his son
Isaac
was eight
days old,
Abraham
circumcised him,
as
God
had commanded him.
5
Abraham
was a hundred
years old
when his son
Isaac
was born
to him.
6
Then Sarah
said,
“God
has made
me
laugh,
and everyone
who hears of this
will laugh with 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.”
8
So the child
grew
and was weaned,
and Abraham
held
a great
feast
on the day
Isaac
was weaned.
9
But Sarah
saw that
the son
whom
Hagar
the Egyptian
had borne
to Abraham
was mocking her son,
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!”
11
Now this matter
distressed
Abraham
greatly
because it concerned
his son Ishmael.
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.
13
But I will also
make
a nation
of the slave woman’s
son,
because
he
is your offspring.”
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.
15
When the water
in
the skin
was gone,
she left
the boy
under
one
of the bushes.
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.
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.
18
Arise,
lift up
the boy
and take him
by the hand,
for
I will make him
into 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.
20
And God
was
with
the boy,
and he grew up
and settled
in the wilderness
and became
a great
archer.
21
And while he was dwelling
in the wilderness
of Paran,
his mother
got
a wife
for him
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.
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.”
24
And Abraham
replied,
“I
swear it.”
25
But when Abraham
complained
to Abimelech
about
a well
that
Abimelech’s
servants
had seized,
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.”
27
So Abraham
brought
sheep
and cattle
and gave
them to Abimelech,
and the two men
made
a covenant.
28
Abraham
separated
seven
ewe lambs
from the flock,
29
and Abimelech
asked
him,
“Why
have you set apart
these
seven
ewe lambs?”
30
He replied,
“You are to accept
the seven
ewe lambs
from my hand
as my witness
that
I dug
this
well.”
31
So
that
place
was called
Beersheba,
because
it was there
that the two
of them swore an oath.
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.
33
And Abraham planted
a tamarisk tree
in Beersheba,
and there
he called
upon the name
of the LORD,
the Eternal
God.
34
And Abraham
resided
in the land
of the Philistines
for a long
time.
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