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¹ AND the LORD remembered Sarah, as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.² For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.³ And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.⁶ And Sarah said, God has made me to rejoice today exceedingly; everyone that hears the news will rejoice with me.⁷ And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would give suck to children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.⁸ And the child grew and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Expel this maidservant and her son; for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son Isaac.¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abrahams sight because of his son.¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice; for your descendants shall come through Isaac.¹³ And also of the son of the maidservant will I make a great nation because he is your offspring.

¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin containing water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the boy; and sent her away. And she departed, and lost her way in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.¹⁵ And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs.¹⁶ And she went and sat down opposite him about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.¹⁷ And the LORD 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.¹⁸ Arise, take up the boy, and hold him fast in your arms; for I will make him a great nation.¹⁹ Then 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.²⁰ And God was with the boy; and he grew up and dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and learned to become an archer in the wilderness of Paran.²¹ And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

²² And it came to pass at that time that Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of his army, said to Abraham, God is with you in all that you do;²³ Now therefore swear to me by God in this place that you will never deal falsely with me, nor with my family, nor with my descendants; but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me and to the land wherein you have sojourned.²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear.²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimeleck because of a well which Abrahams servants had dug and which Abimelecks servants had seized.²⁶ And Abimeleck said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it until today.²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimeleck; and both of them made a covenant.²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.²⁹ And Abimeleck said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs of the flock which you have set by themselves?³⁰ And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take of my hands that they may be a witness for me that I have digged this well.³¹ Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they swore both of them.³² Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; then Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of the army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

³³ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba and called there on the name of the LORD Everlasting.³⁴ And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for a long time.