The Bible
Genesis Chapter 21
1ForeverOne
2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God
3Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God
5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
6Sarah said, "God
9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Throw out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac." 11The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
12God
13I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your offspring." 14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17God
18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold his hand. I will make him a great nation." 19God
20God
21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God
23Now, therefore, swear to me here by God
26Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. You didn't tell me, and I didn't hear of it until today." 27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?" 30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." 31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of ForeverOne
34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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