Isaac is Born
1 The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 Abraham named his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was 100 years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham gave a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Conflict between Sarah and Hagar
9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
11 This was very grievous to Abraham on account of his son. 12 God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous to you because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her, for your offspring will be named through Isaac. 13 I will also make a nation from the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
14 Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a container of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 The water in the container was used up, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. 16 She went and sat down a good distance opposite him, about a bowshot away. For she said, “Don’t let me watch the death of the child.” She sat opposite him and raised her voice and wept.
17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar from heave and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and take his hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
The Covenant at Beersheba
22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying,
“God is with you in all that you do. 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
24 Abraham said, “I will swear.” 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.” 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.