Genesis 21  Revised Geneva Translation

21 Now the LORD visited Sarah, as he had said, and did to her according to His promise.

² For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the same season that God told him.

³ And Abraham called his son’s name who was born to him, Isaac (which Sarah bore him).

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

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

⁶ Then Sarah said, “God has made me rejoice! All who hear will rejoice with me!”

⁷ Again she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

⁸ Then the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast the same 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, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son! For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

¹¹ And this thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight, because of his son.

¹² But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the child, or because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah shall say to you, hear her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.

¹³ As for the son of the bondwoman, I will make him a nation also; because he is your seed.

¹⁴ So Abraham arose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her and the child away. They departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵ And when the water of the bottle was spent, she cast the child under a certain tree.

¹⁶ Then she went and sat opposite him at a distance of about a bow shoot. For she said, “I will not see the death of the child.” And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

¹⁷ Then God heard the voice of the child. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from Heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear. For God has heard the voice of the child where he is.

¹⁸ “Arise, take up the child and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great people.”

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

²⁰ So God was with the child. And he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and was an archer.

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

²² And at the same time, Abimelech and Phichol, his chief captain, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

²³ “Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not hurt me, nor my children, nor my children’s children. You shall deal with me, and with the country where you have been a stranger, according to the kindness that I have showed you.

²⁴ Then Abraham said, “I will swear.”

²⁵ And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing. Also, you didn’t tell me, nor had I heard of it, until today.

²⁷ Then Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.

²⁸ And Abraham set apart seven lambs of the flock.

²⁹ Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven lambs mean which you have set apart?

³⁰ And he answered, “Because you shall receive these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I have dug this well.”

³¹ Therefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swore.

³² Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Afterward, Abimelech and Phichol, the chief captain, rose up and turned again to the land of the Philistines.

³³ And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there called on the Name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

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