1Now Yahweh visited Sarah just as he had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah just as he had spoken.
2And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
3And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.
5And Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
6And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
7And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham, ‘Sarah will nurse children’? Yet I have borne a son in his old age.”
8And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
10And she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son, along with Isaac.”
11And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son.
12And God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be evil in your eyes concerning the boy and concerning your slave woman. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac offspring shall be named for you.
13And also the son of the slave woman I will make into a nation, because he is your offspring.
14And Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, setting them on her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15And the water in the skin was used up, and she cast the child under one of the bushes.
16And she went and sat down by herself opposite him, at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And she sat opposite and lifted up her voice and wept.
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? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18Rise, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19And 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.
20And God was with the boy, and he grew up. And he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.
22And it happened at that time that Abimelech, along with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
23Now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, or with my offspring, or with my posterity. According to the loyal love that I have shown you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”
24And Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25But Abraham reproved Abimelech concerning the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.
26And Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this thing. You yourself did not tell me, and I myself have not heard of it until today.”
27And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them cut a covenant.
28And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart by themselves?”
30And he said, “These seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, so that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
32So they cut a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.
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