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1 And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. 2 And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son who 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 said to Abraham, 'Sarah has given children, for I have borne a son in my old age?'" 8 And the boy grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 And she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit with my son Isaac." 11 And the matter was very displeasing in the eyes of Abraham concerning his son. 12 And God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be evil in your eyes concerning the boy and concerning your maidservant. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your seed shall be called." 13 And also the son of the maidservant I will make into a nation because he is your seed. 14 And Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the boy, and he sent her away. And she went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the waters ceased from the heat, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went and sat opposite him at a distance, as far as a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not see the death of the child." And she sat opposite and lifted her voice and wept. 17 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is." 18 Arise, lift up the youth, and hold his 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 boy a drink. 20 And God was with the young man, and he grew up and dwelt in the wilderness, and he became a skilled archer. 21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took him a wife from the land of Egypt. 22 And it was at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the chief of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do." 23 And now, swear to me by God that you will not deceive me, nor my son, nor my grandson, according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me and to the land in which you have lived. 24 And Abraham said, "I will certainly swear." 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech concerning the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized. 26 And Abimelech said, "I did not know who did this thing, and you did not tell me, and I also did not hear anything except today." 27 And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and they cut a covenant together. 28 And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What are these seven lambs that you have set by themselves?" 30 And he said, "For you shall take seven lambs from my hand; it shall be a witness to me because I have dug this well." 31 Therefore he named that place Beersheba, because there they swore an oath. 32 And they made a covenant at Beersheba, and Abimelech rose up and Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and he called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.