1 A nd the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

2 F or Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 A nd Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare 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 an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

6 A nd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

7 A nd 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 A nd the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

9 A nd Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

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

12 A nd 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 A nd also of the son of the bondwoman 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 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 A nd the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16 A nd she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: 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 A nd 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 A rise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

19 A nd 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 A nd God was with the lad; and he grew, and 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 chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

23 N ow 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 A nd Abraham said, I will swear.

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

26 A nd 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 A nd Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto 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 unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

30 A nd 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 W herefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

32 T hus 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 A nd Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

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