Genesis 21

¹The Lord visited Sarah as he had said , and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised .

²And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

³Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac .

⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old , as God had commanded him.

⁵Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶And Sarah said , God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.

⁷And she said , Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children ? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age .

⁸And the child grew and was weaned . And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned .

⁹But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian , whom she had borne to Abraham , laughing .

¹⁰So she said to Abraham , Cast out this slave woman with her son , for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac .

¹¹And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son .

¹²But God said to Abraham , Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman . Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named .

¹³And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring .

¹⁴So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar , putting it on her shoulder , along with the child , and sent her away . And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba .

¹⁵When the water in the skin was gone , she put the child under one of the bushes .

¹⁶Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off , about the distance of a bowshot , for she said , Let me not look on the death of the child . And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept .

¹⁷And God heard the voice of the boy , and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar ? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹⁸Up ! Lift up the boy , and hold him fast with your hand , for I will make him into a great nation .

¹⁹Then God opened her eyes , and she saw a well of water . And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink .

²⁰And God was with the boy , and he grew up . He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow .

²¹He lived in the wilderness of Paran , and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt .

²²At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham , God is with you in all that you do .

²³Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity , but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned .

²⁴And Abraham said , I will swear .

²⁵When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized ,

²⁶Abimelech said , I do not know who has done this thing ; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today .

²⁷So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech , and the two men made a covenant .

²⁸Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart .

²⁹And Abimelech said to Abraham , What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart ?

³⁰He said , These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand , that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well .

³¹Therefore that place was called Beersheba , because there both of them swore an oath .

³²So they made a covenant at Beersheba . Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines .

³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God .

³⁴And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines .