Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

2 And Channah davened, and said, My lev rejoiceth in Hashem, mine keren is exalted in Hashem; my mouth is opened wide over mine oyevim; because I rejoice with simchah in Thy Yeshuah (Salvation).

² There is none kadosh like Hashem; for there is none besides Thee; neither is there any Tzur like Eloheinu.

³ Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not atak (insolence) come out of your mouth; for Hashem is El De’ot (a G-d -who intensively knows), and by Him alilot (actions) are weighed.

⁴ Keshet gibborim are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with chayil (strength).

⁵ They that were full have hired out themselves for lechem; and they that were hungry are such no more; so that the barren hath born shivah; and she that hath rabbat banim withers in grief.

⁶ Hashem bringeth mot, and maketh chayyim; He bringeth down to Sheol, and raiseth up.

⁷ Hashem maketh poor, and bringeth oisher; He bringeth low, and lifteth up.

⁸ He raiseth up the dal (poor) out of the aphar (dust), and lifteth up the evyon (needy) from the dunghill, to seat them among nedivim (nobles), and to make them inherit the kisse kavod; for the pillars of the earth belong to Hashem, and He hath set the tevel (world) upon them.

⁹ He is shomer over the feet of His chasidim, and the resha’im shall be silenced in choshech; for by ko’ach shall no ish prevail.

¹⁰ Those striving against Hashem shall be shattered; out of Shomayim shall He thunder upon him [the contentious]; Hashem shall judge the afsei eretz (ends of the earth); and He shall give oz (strength) unto His Melech, and exalt the keren (horn, power) of His Moshiach.

21 And Hashem visited Sarah as He had said, and Hashem did unto Sarah just as He had spoken.

² For Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham ben in his old age, at the mo’ed (set time) of which Elohim had given promise unto him.

³ And Avraham called the shem of bno that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitzchak.

⁴ And Avraham circumcised bno Yitzchak at age shemonat yamim, as Elohim had commanded him.

⁵ And Avraham was a hundred years old, when bno Yitzchak was born unto him.

⁶ And she said, Elohim hath brought me tzechok (laughter), so that all that hear yitzchak (will laugh) with me.

⁷ And she said, Who would have said unto Avraham, that Sarah should nurse banim? for I have borne him ben in his old age.

⁸ And the yeled grew, and was weaned; and Avraham made a mishteh gadol the same day that Yitzchak was weaned.

⁹ And Sarah saw the ben of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Avraham, metzachek (mocking, scoffing).

¹⁰ Therefore she said unto Avraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her ben: for the ben of this bondwoman shall not be heir with beni (my son), even with Yitzchak.

¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in the eyes of Avraham because of bno.

¹² And Elohim said unto Avraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the na’ar, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, shema (pay heed) unto her voice; for in Yitzchak shall thy zera be called.

¹³ And also of the ben haamah will I make a nation, because he is thy zera.

¹⁴ And Avraham rose up early in the boker, and took lechem, and a skin of mayim, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the yeled, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the midbar of Beer-Sheva.

¹⁵ And the mayim in the skin was done, and she cast the yeled under one of the bushes.

¹⁶ And she went off, and sat down about a bowshot away: for she thought, Let me not see the mot hayeled. And she sat there nearby, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

¹⁷ And Elohim heard the voice of the na’ar; and the Malach Elohim called to Hagar out of Shomayim, and said unto her, Mah lach, Hagar? fear not; for Elohim hath heard the voice of the na’ar where he is.

¹⁸ Arise, lift up the na’ar, and hold him in thine yad; for I will make him a goy gadol.

¹⁹ And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a be’er of mayim; and she went, and filled the skin with mayim, and gave the na’ar drink.

²⁰ And Elohim was with the na’ar; and he grew, and dwelt in the midbar, and became a roveh keshet (an archer).

²¹ And he dwelt in the midbar of Paran: and his em got him an isha out of Eretz Mitzrayim.

²¹ Tell me, you Goyim who wish to be under the Torah, do you not possess "shema" hearing of the Torah?

²² For the Torah says that Avraham Avinu had shnei banim (two sons), one of shifchah (the slave woman) and one of the gevirah.

²³ But the one of the slave woman has been born according to the basar, and the one of the free woman has been born through the havtachah (promise).

²⁴ Now these things can be taken derech mashal (figuratively); for these are two beritot (covenants, see 3:17), one from Mount Sinai bearing banim for avdut (slavery, bondage): this is Hagar.

²⁵ Now, Hagar is the Mount Sinai in Arabia; and corresponds to the Yerushalayim of the present, for she is in avdut with her banim.

²⁶ But the Yerushalayim above is a Bat Chorin (daughter of freedom), the Imma lechulanu (the Mother of us all TEHILLIM 87:5-6; SHEMOT 25:40; YESHAYEH 49:20f; 54:1-13).

²⁷ For it has been written, RANNI AKARAH LO YALADAH PITZCHI RINNAH V’TZAHALI LO CHALAH KI RABBIM BENEI SHOMEMAH MIB’NEI VE’ULAH ("Sing, rejoice, O barren, the one not giving birth, break forth into song and shout for joy, the one not suffering birth pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than the one having the husband" YESHAYEH 54:1).

²⁸ But you, Achim b’Moshiach, are Bnei HaHavtacha (Sons of the Promise), like Yitzchak. [BERESHIS 18:10]

²⁹ But just as at that time the one born according to the basar was bringing redifah (persecution) on the one born according to the Ruach HaKodesh, so it is now also.

³⁰ But what does the Kitvei HaKodesh say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for never will the son of the slave woman inherit with my son, the son of the free woman" BERESHIS 21:10)

³¹ Therefore, Achim B’Moshiach, we are not Bnei “HAAMAH” (Sons of the Slave Woman) but Bnei HaKhofshi’yah (Sons of Lady Freedom, the Freedwoman).

5 For this “zman cheruteinu” (Pesach Haggadah Kiddush), Moshiach freed us; stand fast, therefore, and be not again bound by an ol (yoke) of avdut (slavery).