1 A nd Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

2 A nd Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

3 A nd Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 A nd Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 A nd Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 A nd Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

7 A nd she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne a son in his old age.

8 A nd the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 A nd Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10 A nd she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son—with Isaac.

11 A nd the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

12 A nd God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

13 B ut also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

14 A nd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave to Hagar, putting on her shoulder—and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15 A nd the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,

16 a nd she went and sat down over against, a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against, and lifted up her voice and wept.

17 A nd God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is.

18 A rise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.

19 A nd God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad drink.

20 A nd God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21 A nd he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

22 A nd it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

23 A nd now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.

24 A nd Abraham said, I will swear.

25 A nd Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26 A nd Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me, neither have I heard but to-day.

27 A nd Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

28 A nd Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 A nd Abimelech said to Abraham, What these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?

30 A nd he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

31 T herefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

32 A nd they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 A nd planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.

34 A nd Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.