¹The LORD visited Sarah as he had said , and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken .

²Sarah conceived , and bore Abraham a son in his old age , at the set time of which God had spoken to him .

³Abraham called his son who was born to him , whom Sarah bore to him , Isaac .[#21:3 Isaac means “He laughs”.]

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

⁵Abraham was one hundred years old when his son , Isaac , was born to him .

⁶Sarah said , “God has made me laugh . Everyone who hears will laugh with me .”

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

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

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

¹⁰Therefore 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 .”

¹¹The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son .

¹²God 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 .

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

¹⁴Abraham 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.

¹⁵The water in the container was spent , and she put the child under one of the shrubs .

¹⁶She 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 .

¹⁷God 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 .

¹⁸Get up , lift up the boy , and hold him with your hand . For I will make him a great nation .”

¹⁹God opened her eyes , and she saw a well of water . She went , filled the container with water , and gave the boy a drink .

²⁰God was with the boy , and he grew . He lived in the wilderness , and as he grew up , he became an archer .

²¹He lived in the wilderness of Paran . His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt .

²²At that time , Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do .

²³Now , 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.”

²⁴Abraham said, “I will swear .”

²⁵Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away .

²⁶Abimelech said , “I don’t know who has done this thing . You didn’t tell me , and I didn’t hear of it until today .”

²⁷Abraham took sheep and cattle , and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant .

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

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

³⁰He 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.”

³¹Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there .[#21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.]

³²So 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 .

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

³⁴Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days .