NIV 2011
The Birth of Isaac: God's Promise Fulfilled
21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. 21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
The Treaty at Beersheba
22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. 23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized. 26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty. 28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, 29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”
31 So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
32 After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. 34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
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The Birth of Isaac: God's Promise Fulfilled
21 Forsooth God visited Sarah, as he promised, and [ful]filled those things, that he spake. 2 And she conceived, and childed a son in her eld (age), in the time wherein God before-said to her. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sarah childed to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised him in the eighth day, as God commanded to him, 5 when he was of an hundred years; for Isaac was born in this age of the father.
6 And Sarah said, The Lord hath made laughing to me, and whoever shall hear (about this) shall laugh with me. 7 And again she said, Who should hear, and believe to Abraham, whom she childed to him, (when he is) now an eld man?
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 Therefore the child increased, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning 9 And when Sarah saw the son of Hagar (the) Egyptian, playing, or doing idolatry, with Isaac her son, 10 she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of the handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
11 Abraham took this heavily for his son; 12 and God said to him, Be it not seen sharp to thee on the child, and on thine handmaid; all things which Sarah saith to thee, hear thou her voice, for in Isaac (the) seed shall be called to thee; 13 but also I shall make the son of the handmaid into a great folk, for he is thy seed.
14 And so Abraham rose early, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and put it on Hagar’s shoulder, and he betook (to) her the child, and let go her; and when she had gone, she went out of the way in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And when the water in the bottle was ended, she cast away the child under a tree that was there;
16 and she went away, and she sat (down) even against (him), as far as a bow may cast; for she said, I shall not see the child dying; and she sat (over) against (him), and raised [up] her voice, and wept.
17 Forsooth the Lord heard the voice of the child, and the angel of the Lord called Hagar from heaven, and said, What doest thou, Hagar? do not thou dread, for God hath heard the voice of the child, from the place wherein he is. 18 Rise thou, and take the child, and hold his hand; for I shall make him into a great folk.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle, and she gave drink to the child;
20 and (God) was with him, and he increased, and dwelled in wilderness, and he was made a young man (who was) an archer, 21 and dwelled in the desert of Paran; and his mother took to him a wife of the land of Egypt.
The Treaty at Beersheba
22 In the same time, Abimelech, and Phicol, prince of his host, said to Abraham, God is with thee in all things that thou doest; 23 therefore swear thou by God that thou harm not me, and mine heirs, and my kindred; but by the mercy which I did to thee, do thou to me, and to the land in which thou livedest (as) a comeling.
24 And Abraham said, I shall swear.
25 And he blamed Abimelech for the well of water, which his servants took away by violence. 26 And Abimelech answered, I wist not who did this thing, but also thou showedest not to me, and I heard not (of it) except today.
27 And so Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelech, and both smote together a bond of peace. 28 And (then) Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock asides half. 29 And Abimelech said to him, What will these seven ewe lambs (mean) to themselves, which thou madest stand asides half?
30 And he said, Thou shalt take of mine hand seven ewe lambs, that those be into witnessing to me, for I digged this well.
31 Therefore that place was called Beersheba, (that is, The Well of the Oath,) for ever either swore there;
32 and they made bond of peace for the well of an oath. Forsooth Abimelech rose, and Phicol, the prince of his chivalry, and they turned again into the land of Palestines.
33 Soothly Abraham planted a wood in Beersheba, and inwardly called there (on) the name of [the] everlasting God;
34 and he was an earth-tiller, or a comeling, of the land of Palestines in many days.
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