Genesis 21

Genesis 21:1

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

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Genesis 21:2

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

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Genesis 21:3

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

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Genesis 21:4

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

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Genesis 21:5

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

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Genesis 21:6

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

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Genesis 21:7

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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Genesis 21:8

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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Genesis 21:9

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

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Genesis 21:10

and she said to Abraham, "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!"

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Genesis 21:11

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

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Genesis 21:12

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

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Genesis 21:13

But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

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Genesis 21:14

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Genesis 21:15

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

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and she cast the child Or , "and she sent the lad ," to screen him from the intensity of the heat.

Genesis 21:16

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

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Genesis 21:17

Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.

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Genesis 21:18

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

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Genesis 21:19

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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Genesis 21:20

And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

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Genesis 21:21

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 21:22

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

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Genesis 21:23

Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

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that thou wilt not deal falsely with me Heb. if thou shalt lie unto me

Genesis 21:24

And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

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Genesis 21:25

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

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because Wells of water were of great consequence in those hot countries , especially where the flocks were numerous; because water was scarce , and digging to find it was attended with the expense of much time and labour.

Genesis 21:26

Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

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Genesis 21:27

So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

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Genesis 21:29

and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

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Genesis 21:30

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

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Genesis 21:31

So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

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Genesis 21:32

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Genesis 21:33

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

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on the name Dr. Shuckford justly contends , that the expression rendered , "he called on the name ," signifies "he invoked in the name."

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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