Genesis 21
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The Birth of Isaac
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto
Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, Heb. 11.11 and bare Abraham a son in his old
age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, Gen.
17.12 · Acts 7.8 as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born
unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear
will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should
have given children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 ¶ And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne
unto Abraham, mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her
son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even
with Isaac. Gal. 4.29, 30
11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his
son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah
hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy
seed be called. Rom. 9.7 · Heb. 11.18
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he is thy seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a
bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in
the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
15 ¶ And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
16 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 see the death of the
child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and
wept.
17 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.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will
make him a great nation.
19 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.
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him
a wife out of the land of Egypt.
The Covenant between Abraham and Abimelech
22 ¶ And it came to pass at that time, that Abim'elech Gen. 26.26
and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying,
God is with thee in all that thou doest:
23 now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal
falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according
to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and
to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 ¶ And Abraham reproved Abim'elech because of a well of water,
which Abim'elech's servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abim'elech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither
didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abim'elech;
and both of them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abim'elech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs
which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this
well.
31 Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; 13 because there they
sware both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abim'elech rose up,
and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the
land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on
the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
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