Genesis 21

1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah as he had spoken.

2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time that God had spoken to him.

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

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

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

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

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

8The boy grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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

10So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this servant woman and her son, for the son of this servant woman will not inherit with my son Isaac.”

11The matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s eyes on account of his son.

12But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your servant woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac your offspring will be called.”

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

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

15When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the boy under one of the bushes.

16Then she went and sat down opposite him, at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

17And God heard the boy’s voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the boy’s voice where he is.”

18Get up, 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. She went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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

22And it happened at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.”

23Swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, or with my children, or with my descendants. According to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land where you have lived as a foreigner.

24And Abraham said, “I swear it.”

25Then Abraham reproved Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

26And Abimelech said, “I did not know who had done this thing. You also did not tell me, and I myself had not heard of it until today.”

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

28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart by themselves?”

30And he said, “You are to take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, so that it may serve as a witness for me that I dug this well.”

31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

32So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

33And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

34And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.