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[1]Andthe LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
[2]ForSarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
[3]AndAbraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
[4]AndAbraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
[5]AndAbraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.
[6]AndSarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
[7]Andshe said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah shall nurse children? for I have borne him a son in his old age.
[8]Andthe child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned.
[9]AndSarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
[10]Wherefore,she said to Abraham, Cast out this bond-woman, and her son: for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
[11]Andthe thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.
[12]AndGod said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
[13]Andalso of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
[14]AndAbraham rose early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
[15]Andthe water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
[16]Andshe 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 raised her voice, and wept.
[17]AndGod heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
[18]Arise,lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand: for I will make him a great nation.
[19]AndGod 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]AndGod was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
[21]Andhe dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
[22]Andit came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
[23]Nowtherefore swear to 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 to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou hast sojourned.
[24]AndAbraham said, I will swear.
[25]AndAbraham reproved Abimelech, because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
[26]AndAbimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet have I heard of it, but to-day.
[27]AndAbraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a covenant.
[28]AndAbraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
[29]AndAbimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?
[30]Andhe said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.
[31]Whereforehe called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.
[32]Thusthey made a covenant at Beer-sheba: Then Abimelech arose, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
[33]AndAbraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
[34]AndAbraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
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