Genesis 21:17-34 ▼

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.”

25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,

26 and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.”

27 And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

28 and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”

30 And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that I have dug this well”;

31 therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.

32 And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech rises—Phichol also, head of his host—and they return to the land of the Philistines;

33 and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;

34 and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.