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Isaac Is Born
1Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had [a]promised.
2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
3Abraham named his son who was born to him, the son whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh [b]with me.”
7And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age.”
8And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Sarah Turns against Hagar
9Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking Isaac.
10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be an heir with my son [c]Isaac!”
11The matter [d]distressed Abraham greatly because of his son Ishmael.
12But God said to Abraham, “[e]Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac [f]your descendants shall be named.
13And of the son of the slave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your [g]descendant.”
14So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a [h]skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15When the water in the skin was used up, she [i]left the boy under one of the bushes.
16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not [j]see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and raised her voice and wept.
17God heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “[k]What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him by [l]the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”
19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [m]skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20And God was with the boy, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Covenant with Abimelech
22Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander