Genesis 21

And the LORD ^avisited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah ^bas he had spoken. ² For Sarah conceived, ^cand bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ³ And Abraham ^dcalled the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. ⁴ And Abraham ^ecircumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵ And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ⁶ And Sarah said, ^fGod hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh ^gwith me. ⁷ And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for ^hI have born him a son in his old age.

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 ^json of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, ⁱmocking. ¹⁰ Wherefore she said unto Abraham, ^kCast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very ^lgrievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. ¹² And God ^msaid 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. ¹³ And also ⁿof 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 ^osent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. ¹⁵ And ^pthe 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, ^qLet me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. ¹⁷ And ^rGod 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 ^sI will make him a great nation. ¹⁹ And God ^topened 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 ^uGod was with the lad; and he grew, and ^vdwelt 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 ^wland of Egypt.

²² And it came to pass at that time, that ^yAbimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, ^xGod is with thee in all that thou doest: ²³ Now therefore ^zswear 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 Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently ^ataken away. ²⁶ And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them ^bmade a covenant. ²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹ And Abimelech said unto Abraham, ^cWhat 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 ^dthey may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. ³¹ Wherefore he ^ecalled that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. ³² Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the ^fland of the Philistines. ³³ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the ^geverlasting God. ³⁴ And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

Genesis 22