drb - 21

drb@Genesis:21:1 @And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

drb@Genesis:21:2 @And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

drb@Genesis:21:3 @And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

drb@Genesis:21:4 @And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

drb@Genesis:21:5 @When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father was Isaac born.

drb@Genesis:21:6 @And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.

drb@Genesis:21:7 @And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age.

drb@Genesis:21:8 @And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

drb@Genesis:21:9 @And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:

drb@Genesis:21:10 @Cast out this bondwoman, and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

drb@Genesis:21:11 @Abraham took this grievously for his son.

drb@Genesis:21:12 @And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

drb@Genesis:21:13 @But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

drb@Genesis:21:14 @So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away

drb@Genesis:21:15 @And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

drb@Genesis:21:16 @And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

drb@Genesis:21:17 @And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

drb@Genesis:21:18 @Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great nation.

drb@Genesis:21:19 @And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

drb@Genesis:21:20 @And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.

drb@Genesis:21:21 @And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

drb@Genesis:21:22 @At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

drb@Genesis:21:23 @Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

drb@Genesis:21:24 @And Abraham said: I will swear.

drb@Genesis:21:25 @And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

drb@Genesis:21:26 @And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

drb@Genesis:21:27 @And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

drb@Genesis:21:28 @And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.

drb@Genesis:21:29 @And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

drb@Genesis:21:30 @But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

drb@Genesis:21:31 @Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.

drb@Genesis:21:32 @And they made a league for the well of oath.

drb@Genesis:21:33 @And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

drb@Genesis:21:34 @And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.

Genesis 21