Verse 23
Genesis 21:23
Geneva Bible
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Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God (Elohim), that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֗ה הִשָּׁ֨בְעָ/ה לִּ֤/י בֵֽ/אלֹהִים֙ הֵ֔נָּה אִם תִּשְׁקֹ֣ר לִ֔/י וּ/לְ/נִינִ֖/י וּ/לְ/נֶכְדִּ֑/י כַּ/חֶ֜סֶד אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂ֤יתִי עִמְּ/ךָ֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה עִמָּדִ֔/י וְ/עִם הָ/אָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁר גַּ֥רְתָּה בָּֽ/הּ
English Translation
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.
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Chapter 21 Context
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Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.
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For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God (Elohim)...
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And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.
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Then Abraham circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God (Elohim) had commande...
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So Abraham was an hundreth yeere olde, when his sonne Izhak was borne vnto him.
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Then Sarah said, God (Elohim) hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me.
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Againe she said, Who would haue saide to Abraham, that Sarah shoulde haue giuen children sucke? for...
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Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was wea...
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And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking.
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Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde...
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And this thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.
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But God (Elohim) said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy...
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As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.
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So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto H...
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And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.
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Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will no...
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Then God (Elohim) heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel of God (Elohim) called to Hagar from h...
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Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.
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And God (Elohim) opened her eyes, and she sawe a well of water. so she went and filled the bottell w...
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So God (Elohim) was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.
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And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God (Eloh...
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Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God (Elohim), that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor...
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Then Abraham said, I will sweare.
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And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken awa...
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And Abimelech saide, I knowe not who hath done this thing: also thou toldest me not, neither heard I...
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Then Abraham tooke sheepe and beeues, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and they two made a couenant.
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And Abraham set seuen lambes of the flocke by themselues.
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Then Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?
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And he answered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes...
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Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.
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Thus made they a couenant at Beer-sheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol his chiefe captaine rose vp...
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And Abraham planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there on the Name of ye Lord, the euerlasting...
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And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.
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