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1 And the LORD vis­it­ed Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spo­ken. 2 For Sarah con­ceived, 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, 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, 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 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 son of Ha­gar the Egyp­tian, which she had born 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. 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. 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 Beer­she­ba. 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 lift 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. 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abim­elech 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 Abim­elech be­cause of a well of wa­ter, which Abimelech's ser­vants had vi­o­lent­ly tak­en 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 made a covenant. 28 And Abra­ham set sev­en ewe lambs of the flock by them­selves. 29 And Abim­elech 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 Beer­she­ba; be­cause there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer­she­ba: then Abim­elech 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 Beer­she­ba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the ev­er­last­ing God. 34 And Abra­ham so­journed in the Philistines' land many days.