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¹AND Yahvah remembered Sarah, as he had said, and Yahvah did to Sarah as he had spoken. ²For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ³And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. ⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was 8 days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵And Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶And Sarah said, God has made me rejoice exceedingly today; everyone who hears the news will rejoice with me. ⁷And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age. ⁸And the child grew and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰Therefore she said to Abraham, Expel this female servant and her son; for the son of this female servant will not be heir with my son Isaac. ¹¹And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

¹²And God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your female servant; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice; for your descendants will come through Isaac. ¹³And the son of the female servant I will also make into a great nation because he is your offspring. ¹⁴And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin containing water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the boy; and sent her away. And she departed, and lost her way in the wilderness of Beersheba. ¹⁵And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶And she went and sat down opposite him about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Do not let me see the death of the boy. And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept. ¹⁷And Yahvah heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. ¹⁸Arise, take up the boy, and hold him fast in your arms; for I will make him a great nation. ¹⁹Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰And God was with the boy; and he grew up and lived in the wilderness of Paran and learned to become an archer in the wilderness of Paran. ²¹And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

²²And it came to pass at that time that Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of his army, said to Abraham, God is with you in all that you do; ²³Now therefore swear to me by God in this place that you will never deal falsely with me, nor with my family, nor with my descendants; but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have resided temporarily. ²⁴And Abraham said, I will swear. ²⁵And Abraham reprimanded Abimeleck because of a well which Abraham's servants had dug and which Abimeleck's servants had seized. ²⁶And Abimeleck said, I do not know who has done this thing; nor did you tell me, nor have I heard of it until today. ²⁷And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimeleck; and both of them made a contract. ²⁸And Abraham set 7 ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹And Abimeleck said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these 7 ewe lambs of the flock which you have set by themselves? ³⁰And he said, These 7 ewe lambs you will take from my hands that they may be a witness for me that I have dug this well. ³¹Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them. ³²Thus they made a contract at Beersheba; then Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of the army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

³³And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba and called there on the name of Yahvah Everlasting. ³⁴And Abraham resided temporarily in the land of the Philistines for a long time.