The Birth of Isaac

1. And Jehovah visited Sarah as He had said,
and Jehovah did to Sarah as He had spoken.

2. For Sarah conceived, and bore 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 to him,
whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old,
as God had commanded him.

5. And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6. And Sarah said,
“God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

7. And she said,
“Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?
For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

8. And the child grew, and was weaned;
and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10. Therefore she said to Abraham,
“Cast out this servant woman and her son;
for the son of this servant 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. But God said to Abraham,
“Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your servant woman;
in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice,
for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

13. And also of the son of the servant woman will I make a nation,
because he is your seed.”

14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and took bread and a skin 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 Beersheba.

God Hears Ishmael

15. And the water in the skin was spent,
and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16. And she went, and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bowshot away;
for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.”
And she sat opposite him, and lifted 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 to her,
“What ails you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your 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 skin 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 a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

The Covenant at Beersheba

22. And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army,
spoke to Abraham, saying,
“God is with you in all that you do.

23. Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me,
nor with my son, nor with my grandson;
but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me,
and to the land in which you have 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 do not know who has done this thing;
neither did you tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.”

27. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech;
and both of them made a covenant.

28. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29. And Abimelech said to Abraham,
“What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”

30. And he said,
“For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand,
that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.”

31. Therefore he called that place Beersheba (“Well of the Oath”),
because there they both swore an oath.

32. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba;
and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol, the commander of his army,
and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba,
and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

34. And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.