21Genesis 21

1And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.Select Genesis 21:1

2And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.Select Genesis 21:2

3And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.Select Genesis 21:3

4And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,Select Genesis 21:4

5When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.Select Genesis 21:5

6And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.Select Genesis 21:6

7And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?Select Genesis 21:7

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

9And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:Select Genesis 21:9

10Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.Select Genesis 21:10

11Abraham took this grievously for his son.Select Genesis 21:11

12And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.Select Genesis 21:12

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

14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.Select Genesis 21:14

15And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.Select Genesis 21:15

16And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.Select Genesis 21:16

17And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.Select Genesis 21:17

18Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the 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 went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.Select Genesis 21:19

20And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.Select Genesis 21:20

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

22At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.Select Genesis 21:22

23Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.Select Genesis 21:23

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

25And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.Select Genesis 21:25

26And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.Select Genesis 21:26

27Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.Select Genesis 21:27

28And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.Select Genesis 21:28

29And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?Select Genesis 21:29

30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.Select Genesis 21:30

31Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.Select Genesis 21:31

32And they made a league for the well of oath.Select Genesis 21:32

33And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.Select Genesis 21:33

34And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.Select Genesis 21:34