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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And Abraham said, “I will swear.” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.” |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines. |
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