 1 The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as He had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived and gave+ Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him whom Sarah bore to him Isaac. 4 Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 Sarah said, God has made me laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me. 7 She said, Who could have said to Abraham, will Sarah suckle children? For I have borne a son to him in his old age. 8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom she had borne to Abraham mocking. 10 She said to Abraham, Cast out this slave woman and her son. For the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac. 11 The thing was very evil in Abraham's sight, because of his son. 12 God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your slave woman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac your descendants shall be called. 13 Also, I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman, because he is your descendant. 14 Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 The water was gone in the bottle, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs. 16 She sat down across from him, a good way off, about a bowshot. She said, Do not let me see the death of the boy. She sat across from him and lifted her voice and wept. 17 God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens and said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Rise up. Lift up the boy and hold him up with your hand. For I will make him a great nation. 19 God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and filled the bottle with water and gave a drink to the boy. 20 God was with the boy and he grew and lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham saying, God is with you in all that you do. 23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. Do to me according to the kindness that I have sworn to you, and to the land in which you have lived. 24 Abraham said, I will swear. 25 Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither did you tell me, neither have I even heard of it, except today. 27 Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves? 30 He said, Take these seven ewe lambs from me so that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well. 31 This is why he called that place Beersheba, because they swore, both of them, there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose and they returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tree in Beersheba and called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. 34 Then Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines for many days.
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