Genesis 21

1Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.

2For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.

3And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.

4Then Abraham circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God had commanded him.

5So Abraham was an hundreth yeere olde, when his sonne Izhak was borne vnto him.

6Then Sarah said, God hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me.

7Againe she said, Who would haue saide to Abraham, that Sarah shoulde haue giuen children sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age.

8Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was weaned.

9And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking.

10Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.

11And this thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

12But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.

13As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.

14So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the childe also, and sent her away: who departing wandred in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.

15And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.

16Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. and she sate downe ouer against him, and lift vp her voyce and wept.

17Then God heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel of God called to Hagar from heauen, and said vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not, for God hath heard the voyce of the childe where he is.

18Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.

19And God opened her eyes, and she sawe a well of water. so she went and filled the bottell with water, and gaue the boy drinke.

20So God was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.

21And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

22And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

23Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.

24Then Abraham said, I will sweare.

25And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.

26And Abimelech saide, I knowe not who hath done this thing: also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it but this day.

27Then Abraham tooke sheepe and beeues, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and they two made a couenant.

28And Abraham set seuen lambes of the flocke by themselues.

29Then Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?

30And he answered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes vnto me, that I haue digged this well.

31Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.

32Thus made they a couenant at Beer-sheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol his chiefe captaine rose vp, and turned againe vnto the land of the Philistims.

33And Abraham planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there on the Name of ye Lord, the euerlasting God.

34And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.