Bereshit 21

Then God remembered Sarah, as He had said; and He did for her as He had promised.

And she conceived, and bore to Abraham a son in his old age — at the time which God had spoken.

And Abraham named his son who was born to him — whom Sarah bore to him — Isaac.

And he circumcised him at eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham was a son of a hundred years when Isaac his son was born to him.

And Sarah said: 'God has made joy for me — everyone who hears will rejoice with me.'

Then she said: 'Whoever said to Abraham that Sarah should nurse children — has spoken true; for I have borne him a son in his old age.'

Then the boy grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Then Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing.

And the matter was very hard on Abraham, on account of his son.

And God said to him: 'Let not the matter be hard upon you concerning the boy and your maidservant. Everything that Sarah says to you — accept it from her; for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

And the son of the maidservant also — I shall make of him a nation, for he is your offspring.'

And Abraham rose early in the morning; and he took food and a waterskin, and gave it to Hagar, setting it upon her shoulder; and he gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she went, and wandered, in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba.

And the water in the skin was used up; and she cast the boy under one of the trees.

And she went, and sat opposite him, at a distance as far as a bowshot — for she said: 'Let me not see the death of the boy.' And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from the sky, and said to her: 'What troubles you, O Hagar? Fear not — for God has heard the voice of the boy, where he is.

Arise, lift him up, and strengthen your hand upon him — for I shall make of him a great nation.'

And God uncovered her sight, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy to drink.

And God was with him until he grew up; and he settled in the wilderness, and was a youth, an archer.

And he settled in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

And it was at that time that Abimelech, and Phicol the chief of his army, said to Abraham: 'God is with you in all that you do.

Now swear to me here by God, that you shall not betray me, nor my offspring, nor my posterity. According to the kindness which I have done with you — shall you do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned.'

Abraham said: 'I shall swear.'

And Abraham reproved Abimelech, on account of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized by force.

Abimelech said: 'I do not know who did this thing; and you did not tell me; and I, too, have not heard of it — except today.'

And Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech; and the two of them made a covenant.

And Abraham set aside seven ewes of the flock by themselves.

Abimelech said to him: 'What are these seven ewes which you have set apart by themselves?'

He said: 'That you shall take them from my hand — that they may be a witness for me that I have dug this well.'

Therefore the place was called Beer-Sheba — for there the two of them swore.

And when they had made the covenant in Beer-Sheba, Abimelech and Phicol the chief of his army arose, and returned to the land of the Philistines.

And he set up a marker in Beer-Sheba, and called there upon the name of God, the Lord of the World.

Then Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for a long time.