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1The LORD came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

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

2Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

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

3Abraham named his son who was born to him Isaac—the very one whom Sarah bore for him!

3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

4On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

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

5Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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

6Now Sarah had said, "God has caused me to laugh, and all who hear about it will laugh with me."

6And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”

7She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"

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

8The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

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

9Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian—whom Hagar had borne to Abraham—making fun of Isaac,

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

10she told Abraham, "Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave's son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"

10So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

11Abraham was very troubled about what was being said about his son,

11And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.

12but God told Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the youth and your slave girl. Pay attention to Sarah in everything she tells you, because your offspring are to be named through Isaac.

12But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

13Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."

13And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”

14So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness.

14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.

15When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

16Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, "I can't bear to watch the child die!" That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

16Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

17God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

17And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

18Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants."

18Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

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

19Then 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.

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

20And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.

21Later he settled in the desert area of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22About that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, told Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you're doing.

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

23Therefore swear an oath here by God that you won't deal falsely with me, my sons, or my descendants. Just as I've dealt graciously with you, won't you do so with me and with the land in which you live as a foreigner?"

23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

24And Abraham replied, "I agree!"

24And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

25But then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized.

25When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

26"I don't know who did this thing," Abimelech replied. "You didn't report this to me, and I didn't hear about it until today."

26Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”

27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and presented them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28Then Abraham set aside seven ewe lambs,

28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

29so Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set aside?"

29And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

30He replied, "You are to accept from me these seven ewe lambs as a witness that I have dug this well."

30He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

31Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba, because the two of them swore an oath.

31Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

32So after they had made a covenant in Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to Philistine territory.

32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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

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

34After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.

34And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

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