¶ The lord visited Sara as he had said and did unto her according as he had spoken.
And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age even the same season which the Lorde had appointed.
And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him which Sara bare him Isaac:
and Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him.
And Abraham was an hundred year old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
And Sara said: God hath made me a laughing stock: for all that hear, will laugh at me.
She said also: who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age:
The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.
¶ Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.
Then she said unto Abraham: put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac:
But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.
Then the Lorde said unto Abraham: let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Berseba.
When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush
and went and sat her out of sight a great way, as it were a bowshot off: For she said: I will not see the lad die. And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.
And God heard the voice of the child. And the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her: What aileth thee Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the child where he lieth.
Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will make of him a great people.
And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan. And his mother got him a wife out of thee, land of Egypt.
¶ And it chanced the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying: God is with thee in all that thou doest.
Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have shewed thee.
Then said Abraham: I will swear.
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.
And Abimelech answered I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it, but this day.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together.
And Abraham set seven lambs by them selves.
And Abimelech said unto Abraham: what mean these seven lambs which thou hast set by them selves.
And he answered: seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well:
Wherefore the place is called Berseba, because they sware both of them.
Thus made they a bond together at Berseba. Then Abimelech and Phicol his chief Captain rose up and turned again unto the land of the Philistines.
¶ And Abraham planted a wood in Berseba, and called there, on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God:
and dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.
Praise the Everlasting Lord for His Faithful Word.