14 August 2022 draft-bible
1 And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 And 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 who 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 one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse 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, Cast out this slave and her son! For the son of this slave will not be heir with my son Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grevous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. 12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grevous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your slave. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. 13 And also of the son of the slave I will make a nation, because he is your seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bowshot away. For she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad, and an angel of God called to Hagar from the sky, and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18 Get up, lift up the lad, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
20 And God was with the lad, and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22 And at that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army 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 deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But just as I have done kindness to you, so you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a water well which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing, nor did you tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.
27 And Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech; and the two of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves?
30 And he said, You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well. 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech rose up with Phicol the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. 34 And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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