Genesis:21

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* And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said , and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken . * And Sarah conceived , and bore Abraham a son in his old age , at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him . * And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him , whom Sarah bore to him , Isaac . * And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac , being eight days old , as God had commanded him . * And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him . * And Sarah said , God has made me laugh : all that hear will laugh with me . * And she said , Who would have said to Abraham , Sarah will suckle children ? For I have borne [him ] a son in his old age . * And the child grew , and was weaned . And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned . * And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian , whom she had borne to Abraham , mocking . * And she said to Abraham , Cast out this handmaid and her son ; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac . * And the thing was very grievous in Abraham 's sight because of his son . * And God said to Abraham , Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid : [in ] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice , for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee . * But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation , because he is thy seed . * And Abraham rose up early in the morning , and took bread , and a flask of water , and gave [it ] to Hagar , putting [it ] on her shoulder -- and the child , and sent her away . And she departed , and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba . * And the water was exhausted from the flask ; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs , * and she went and sat down over against [him ], a bow-shot off ; for she said , Let me not behold the death of the child . And she sat over against [him ], and lifted up her voice and wept . * And God heard the voice of the lad . And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens , and said to her , What [aileth ] thee , Hagar ? Fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there , where he is . * Arise , take the lad , and hold him in thy hand ; for I will make of him a great nation . * And God opened her eyes , and she saw a well of water ; and she went and filled the flask with water , and gave the lad drink . * And God was with the lad , and he grew ; and he dwelt in the wilderness , and became an archer . * And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran . And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt . * And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech , and Phichol the captain of his host , spoke to Abraham , saying , God is with thee in all that thou doest . * And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me , nor with my son , nor with my grandson . According to the kindness that I have done to thee , thou shalt do to me , and to the land in which thou sojournest . * And Abraham said , I will swear . * And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech 's servants had violently taken away . * And Abimelech said , I do not know who has done this , neither hast thou told me [of it ], neither have I heard [of it ] but to-day . * And Abraham took sheep and oxen , and gave them to Abimelech ; and both of them made a covenant . * And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves . * And Abimelech said to Abraham , What [mean ] these seven ewe-lambs , these which thou hast set by themselves ? * And he said , That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand , that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well . * Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba , because there they had sworn , both of them . * And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba . And Abimelech rose up , and Phichol the captain of his host , and returned into the land of the Philistines . * And [Abraham ] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba , and called there on the name of Jehovah , the Eternal �God . * And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines ' land many days .

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