Genesis 21:1-24 ▼

1 And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;

2 and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;

3 and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;

4 and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.

5 And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,

6 and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”

7 She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?”

8 And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;

9 and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,

10 and she says to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid has no possession with my son—with Isaac.”

11 And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;

12 and God says to Abraham, “Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the youth, and because of your handmaid: all that Sarah says to you—listen to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to you.

13 As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”

14 And Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the boy, and sends her out; and she goes on, and goes astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;

15 and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.

16 And she goes and sits by herself opposite [him], far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the boy”; and she sits opposite [him], and lifts up her voice, and weeps.

17 And God hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calls to Hagar from the heavens and says to her, “What to you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of the youth where he [is];

18 rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for a great nation.”

19 And God opens her eyes, and she sees a well of water, and she goes and fills the bottle [with] water, and causes the youth to drink;

20 and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;

21 and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

22 And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, “God [is] with you in all that you are doing;

23 and now, swear to me by God here: you do not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with you—do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned.”

24 And Abraham says, “I swear.”