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v1
And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.
v2
And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
v3
And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
v4
And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
v5
And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
v6
And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me.”
v7
And she said, “Who would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age.”
v8
And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
v9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.
v10
Then she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac.”
v11
And the matter displeased Abraham very much ^[Literally “was very bad in the eyes of Abraham”] on account of his son.
v12
Then God said to Abraham, “Do not be displeased ^[Literally “Do not let it be bad”] on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. Listen to everything that Sarah said to you, ^[Literally “Everything Sarah said to you, listen with respect to her voice”] for through Isaac your offspring will be named.
v13
And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring.”
v14
Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.
v15
And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.
v16
And she went and she sat a good distance away, ^[Literally “she sat with respect to her, opposite, far away, as the shooting of a bow”] for she said, “Let me not see the child’s death.” So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.
v17
And God heard the cry ^[Or “voice”] of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, “What is the matter ^[Literally “What to you”] Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry ^[Or “voice”] of the boy from where he is. ^[Literally “in which he is there”]
v18
Get up, take up the boy and take him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
v19
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.
v20
And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became an expert with a bow. ^[Literally “an archer with the bow”]
v21
And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
v22
And it happened that at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you, in all that you do.
v23
So now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall pledge to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien.”
v24
And Abraham said, “I swear.”
v25
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized.
v26
And Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this thing, neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it except for today.”
v27
And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them made ^[Literally “cut”] a covenant.
v28
Then Abraham set off seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
v29
And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe-lambs that you have set off by themselves?“
v30
And he said, “You shall take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand as proof on my behalf ^[Literally “for the sake that it shall be a witness for me”] that I dug this well.”
v31
Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
v32
And they made ^[Literally “cut”] a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech, and Phicol his army commander stood and returned to the land of the Philistines.
v33
And he ^[That is, Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the everlasting God. ^[Literally “El-Olam”]
v34
And Abraham dwelled as an alien in the land of the Philistines many days.