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$Title{Old Testament, The
Chapter 21}
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$Subject{abraham
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sarah
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abimelech
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$Date{1885}
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Title: Old Testament, The
Book: Genesis
Author: Various
Date: 1885
Chapter 21
And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as
he had spoken. And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of
his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham
circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded
him. And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto
him. And Sarah said, God hath ^1 made me to laugh; every one that heareth
will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that
Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.
[Footnote 1: Or, prepared laughter for me]
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 unto Abraham, ^2 mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast
out this handmaid and her son: for the son of this handmaid shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's
sight on account of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all
that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy
seed be called. And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation,
because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in dhe morning, and took
bread and a ^3 bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. And the water in the bottle was
spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat
her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said,
Let me not look upon 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 out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great
nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went,
and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with
the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew
up, an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took
him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
[Footnote 2: Or, playing]
[Footnote 3: Or, skin]
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain
of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou
doest: now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely
with me, nor with ^4 my son, nor with my son's: but according to the kindness
that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein
thou hast sojourned. And Abraham said, I will swear. And Abraham reproved
Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had
violently taken away. And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this
thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. And
Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a
covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast
set by themselves? And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of
them. So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and
Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the
Philistines. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called
there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned in
the land of the Philistines many days.
[Footnote 4: Or, my offspring, nor with my posterity]