Genesis 21

¹And our Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled the things which he spake.

²And she conceived & bare a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

³And Abraham called the name of his son, which Sara bare him, Isaac:

⁴and he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

⁵when he was an hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.

⁶And Sara said: Laughter God hath made to me: whosoever shall hear of it, will laugh with me.

⁷And again she said: Who that shall hear of it would believe Abraham, that Sara gave suck to a son, which she bare him now being an old man?

⁸The child therefore grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning.

⁹And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Ægyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:

¹⁰Cast out this handmaid, & her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

¹¹Abraham took this grievously for his son.

¹²To whom God said: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy handmaid: all things that Sara shall say to thee, hear her voice: because in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.

¹³But the son also of the handmaid I will make into a great nation, because he is thy seed.

¹⁴Abraham therefore rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and dismissed her. Who went away, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

¹⁵And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

¹⁶And she went her way, and sat over against a great way off as far as a bow can cast, for she said: I will no see the child dying. And sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

¹⁷And God heard the voice of the boy: and an Angel of God called Agar from heaven, saying: What doest thou Agar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

¹⁸Arise, take up the boy, & hold his hand; for into a great nation will I make him.

¹⁹And God opened her eyes: who seeing a well of water, went, and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

²⁰And God was with him: who grew, and abode in the wilderness, and became a young man archer.

²¹And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Ægypt.

²²The same time said Abimelech, and Phicol the General of his army, to Abraham: God is with thee in all things which thou doest.

²³Swear therefore by God, not to hurt me, and my posterity, and my stock: but according to the mercy, that I have done thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

²⁴And Abraham said: I will swear.

²⁵And he rebuked Abimelech for the well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

²⁶And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: yea and thyself didst not tell me, and I heard not of it but today.

²⁷Abraham therefore took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

²⁸And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

²⁹To whom Abimelech said: What mean these seven ewe lambs, which thou hast made to stand apart?

³⁰But he said: Seven ewe lambs shalt thou take at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I digged this well.

³¹Therefore was that place called Bersabee: because there both did swear.

³²And they made a league for the well of oath.

³³And Abimelech arose, and Phicol the General of his army, and they returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and called there upon the name of our Lord God eternal.

³⁴And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.