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Genesis 21 📜 📕 ↷
Birth of Isaac
1 AND our Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled the things which he spake.📜💬📚
2 And she conceived & bare a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.📜💬📚
3 And Abraham called the name of his son, which Sara bare him, Isaac:📜💬📚
4 and he circumcised him the eight day, as God had commanded him,📜💬📚
5 when he was an hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.📜💬📚
6 And Sara said: Laughter God hath made to me: whosoever shall hear of it, will laugh with me.📜💬📚
7 And again she said: Who that shall hear of it would believe Abraham, that Sara gave suck to a son, which she bare him now being an old man?📜💬📚
8 The child therefore grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning.📜💬📚
Sarah Turns against Hagar
9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the AEgyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:📜💬📚
10 Cast out this handmaid, & her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac.📜💬📚
11 Abraham took this grievously for his son.📜💬📚
12 To whom God said: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy handmaid: all things that Sara shall say to thee, hear her voice: because in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.📜💬📚
13 But the son also of the handmaid I will make into a great nation, because he is thy seed.📜💬📚
14 Abraham therefore rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and dismissed her. Who went away, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.📜💬📚
15 And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.📜💬📚
16 And she went her way, and sat over against a great way off as far as a bow can cast, for she said: I will no see the child dying. And sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.📜💬📚
17 And God heard the voice of the boy: and an Angel of God called Agar from heaven, saying: What doest thou Agar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.📜💬📚
18 Arise, take up the boy, & hold his hand; for into a great nation will I make him.📜💬📚
19 And God opened her eyes: who seeing a well of water, went, and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.📜💬📚
20 And God was with him: who grew, and abode in the wilderness, and became a young man archer.📜💬📚
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
Covenant at Beersheba
22 The same time said Abimelech, and Phicol the General of his army, to Abraham: God is with thee in all things which thou doest.📜💬📚
23 Swear therefore by God, not to hurt me, and my posterity, and my stock: but according to the mercy, that I have done thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.📜💬📚
24 And Abraham said: I will swear.📜💬📚
25 And he rebuked Abimelech for the well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.📜💬📚
26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: yea and thy self didst not tell me, and I heard not of it but to day.📜💬📚
27 Abraham therefore took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.📜💬📚
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.📜💬📚
29 To whom Abimelech said: What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast made to stand apart?📜💬📚
30 But he said: Seven ewe lambs shalt thou take at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I digged this well.📜💬📚
31 Therefore was that place called Bersabee: because there both did swear.📜💬📚
32 And they made a league for the well of oath.📜💬📚
33 And Abimelech arose, and Phicol the General of his army, and they returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and called there upon the name of our Lord God eternal.📜💬📚
34 And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.📜💬📚
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