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The First Book of Moses: Genesis

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- Chapter 21 -

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And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;
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and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;
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and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
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and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
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And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
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and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
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She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?”
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And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;

Sarah Turns against Hagar

(Galatians 4:21–30)
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and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking,
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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.”
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And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake;
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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.
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As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”
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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;
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and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
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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.
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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];
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rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for a great nation.”
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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;
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and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer;
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and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

The Covenant at Beersheba

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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;
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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.”
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And Abraham says, “I swear.”
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And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,
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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.”
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And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
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and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves.
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And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?”
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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”;
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therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there.
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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;
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and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;
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and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
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The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
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Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
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Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.(a)
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Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
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Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
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Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
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She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Sarah Turns against Hagar

(Galatians 4:21–30)
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Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
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Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
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The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
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God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
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I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
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Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
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She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
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God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
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God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

The Covenant at Beersheba

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At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
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Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will 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 you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
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Abraham said, “I will swear.”
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Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
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Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
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Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
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Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
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Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
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He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
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Therefore he called that place Beersheba,(b) because they both swore an oath there.
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
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Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Footnotes

(a)21:3 Isaac means “He laughs”.
(b)21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.
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