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And the
Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord
did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
02 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a
son in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him.
03 And Abraham called the name of his son
that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him,
04 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac
being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
05 And Abraham was an hundred years old,
when his son Isaac was born unto him.
06 And Sarah said, God hath made me to
laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
07 And she said, Who would have said unto
Abraham, that Sarah should have given children
suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
08 And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast the same day that
Isaac was weaned.
09 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham,
mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast
out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of
this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,
even with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in
Abraham's sight because of his son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath
said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman
will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,
and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and
she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle,
and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over
against him a good way off, as it were a bow
shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of
the child. And she sat over against him, and lift
up her voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and
the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven,
and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear
not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad
where he is.
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18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in
thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water; and she went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew,
and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an
archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran:
and his mother took him a wife out of the land of
Egypt.
22 And it came to pass at that time, that
Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his
host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee
in all that thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God
that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with
my son, nor with my son's son: but according to
the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou
shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou
hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because
of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants
had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath
done this thing; neither didst thou tell me,
neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a
covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the
flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What
mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by
themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs
shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a
witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place
Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba:
then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief
captain of his host, and they returned into the
land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in
Beersheba, and called there on the name of the
Lord, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the
Philistines' land many days.
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