GENESIS Chapter 21
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21:1 The LORD
blessed Sarah, as he had promised, |
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21:2 and she became
pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the
time God had said he would be born. |
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21:3 Abraham named
him Isaac, |
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21:4 and when Isaac
was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded. |
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21:5 Abraham was a
hundred years old when Isaac was born. |
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21:6 Sarah said,
"God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will
laugh with me." |
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21:7 Then she
added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?
Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." |
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21:8 The child
grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast. |
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21:9 One day
Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, was playing with
Sarah's son Isaac. |
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21:10 Sarah saw them
and said to Abraham, "Send this slave and her son away. The son of this
woman must not get any part of your wealth, which my son Isaac should
inherit." |
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21:11 This troubled
Abraham very much, because Ishmael also was his son. |
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21:12 But God said
to Abraham, "Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do
whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the
descendants I have promised. |
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21:13 I will also
give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a
nation. He too is your son." |
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21:14 Early the next
morning Abraham gave Hagar some food and a leather bag full of water. He put
the child on her back and sent her away. She left and wandered about in the
wilderness of Beersheba. |
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21:15 When the water
was all gone, she left the child under a bush |
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21:16 and sat down
about a hundred yards away. She said to herself,
"I can't bear to see my child die." While she was sitting there,
she began to cry. |
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21:17 God heard the
boy crying, and from heaven the angel of God spoke to Hagar, "What are
you troubled about, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy crying. |
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21:18 Get up, go and
pick him up, and comfort him. I will make a great nation out of his
descendants." |
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21:19 Then God
opened her eyes, and she saw a well. She went and filled the leather bag with
water and gave some to the boy. |
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21:20 God was with
the boy as he grew up; he lived in the wilderness of Paran
and became a skillful hunter. |
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21:21 His mother got
an Egyptian wife for him. |
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21:22 At that time Abimelech went with Phicol, the
commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in
everything you do. |
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21:23 So make a vow
here in the presence of God that you will not deceive me, my children, or my
descendants. I have been loyal to you, so promise that you will also be loyal
to me and to this country in which you are living." |
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21:24 Abraham said,
"I promise." |
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21:25 Abraham
complained to Abimelech about a well which the
servants of Abimelech had seized. |
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21:26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who did this. You
didn't tell me about it, and this is the first I have heard of it." |
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21:27 Then Abraham
gave some sheep and cattle to Abimelech, and the
two of them made an agreement. |
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21:28 Abraham
separated seven lambs from his flock, |
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21:29 and Abimelech asked him, "Why did you do that?" |
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21:30 Abraham answered,
"Accept these seven lambs. By doing this, you admit that I am the one
who dug this well." |
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21:31 And so the
place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them made a
vow. |
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21:32 After they had
made this agreement at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol went back to Philistia. |
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21:33 Then Abraham
planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the LORD, the Everlasting
God. |
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21:34 Abraham lived
in Philistia for a long time. |
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