# Genesis 21 • --- ### 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. ### 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ### 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. ### 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. ### 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ### 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, all that hear will laugh with me. ### 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born a son in his old age. ### 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned. ### 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. ### 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac. ### 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. ### 12 And 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 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he thy seed. ### 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave unto Hagar, putting on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. ### 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. ### 16 And she went, and sat her down over against a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against and lift up her voice, and wept. ### 17 And 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 ### 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. ### 19 And 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 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. ### 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. ### 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God with thee in all that thou doest: ### 23 Now 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: according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. ### 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. ### 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. ### 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I but to day. ### 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. ### 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ### 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? ### 30 And he said, For seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. ### 31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. ### 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. ### 33 And planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. ### 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.