Darby - Genesis - 21

21:1  And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

21:2  And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of whichGod had spoken to him.

21:3  And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

21:4  And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, asGod had commanded him.

21:5  And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

21:6  And Sarah said,God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

21:7  And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age.

21:8  And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

21:9  And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

21:10  And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son — with Isaac.

21:11  And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

21:12  AndGod said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

21:13  But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

21:14  And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder — and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

21:15  And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,

21:16  and she went and sat down over against [him], a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lifted up her voice and wept.

21:17  AndGod heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel ofGod called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What [aileth] thee, Hagar? Fear not; forGod hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is.

21:18  Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.

21:19  AndGod opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad drink.

21:20  AndGod was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21:21  And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

21:22  And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying,God is with thee in all that thou doest.

21:23  And now swear to me here byGod that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.

21:24  And Abraham said, I will swear.

21:25  And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

21:26  And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me [of it], neither have I heard [of it] but to-day.

21:27  And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

21:28  And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

21:29  And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?

21:30  And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

21:31  Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

21:32  And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.

21:33  And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the EternalGod.

21:34  And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.