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Genesis 21

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1And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.Select Genesis 21:1

2And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.Select Genesis 21:2

3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.Select Genesis 21:3

4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.Select Genesis 21:4

5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.Select Genesis 21:5

6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me.Select Genesis 21:6

7And 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.Select Genesis 21:7

8And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.Select Genesis 21:8

9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.Select Genesis 21:9

10Wherefore 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.Select Genesis 21:10

11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.Select Genesis 21:11

12And 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.Select Genesis 21:12

13And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.Select Genesis 21:13

14And 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 gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.Select Genesis 21:14

15And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.Select Genesis 21:15

16And 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.Select Genesis 21:16

17And 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.Select Genesis 21:17

18Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.Select Genesis 21:18

19And 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.Select Genesis 21:19

20And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.Select Genesis 21:20

21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.Select Genesis 21:21

22And 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:Select Genesis 21:22

23now 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.Select Genesis 21:23

24And Abraham said, I will swear.Select Genesis 21:24

25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.Select Genesis 21:25

26And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.Select Genesis 21:26

27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.Select Genesis 21:27

28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.Select Genesis 21:28

29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?Select Genesis 21:29

30And 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.Select Genesis 21:30

31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.Select Genesis 21:31

32So 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.Select Genesis 21:32

33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.Select Genesis 21:33

34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.Select Genesis 21:34

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