Isaac is born, and Sarah laughs with joy. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away into the wilderness, where God hears the boy and shows Hagar a well. Abraham makes a treaty with Abimelech at Beersheba.
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said , and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken .
2 For Sarah conceived , and bare Abraham a son in his old age , at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac .
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old , as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old , when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said , God hath made me to laugh , so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said , Who would have said unto Abraham , that Sarah should have given children suck ? for I have born him a son in his old age .
8 And the child grew , and was weaned : and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian , which she had born unto Abraham , mocking .
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham , Cast out this bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son , even with Isaac .
11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son .
12 And God said unto Abraham , Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad , and because of thy bondwoman ; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice ; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called .
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation , because he is thy seed .
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning , and took bread , and a bottle of water , and gave it unto Hagar , putting it on her shoulder , and the child , and sent her away : and she departed , and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba .
15 And the water was spent in the bottle , and she cast the child under one of the shrubs .
16 And she went , and sat her down over against him a good way off , as it were a bowshot : for she said , Let me not see the death of the child . And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice , and wept .
17 And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven , and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 Arise , lift up the lad , and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation .
19 And God opened her eyes , and she saw a well of water ; and she went , and filled the bottle with water , and gave the lad drink .
20 And God was with the lad ; and he grew , and dwelt in the wilderness , and became an archer .
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt .
22 And it came to pass at that time , that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham , saying , God is with thee in all that thou doest :
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son , nor with my son's son : but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned .
24 And Abraham said , I will swear .
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water , which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away .
26 And Abimelech said , I wot not who hath done this thing : neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day .
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen , and gave them unto Abimelech ; and both of them made a covenant .
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham , What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said , For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand , that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well .
31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba ; because there they sware both of them .
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba : then Abimelech rose up , and Phichol the chief captain of his host , and they returned into the land of the Philistines .
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba , and called there on the name of the LORD , the everlasting God .
34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines ' land many days .