Genesis 21 — OURB
21Verse 1Adonai visited Sarah [Princess] as he had said, and Adonai did to Sarah [Princess] as he had spoken.Verse 2Sarah [Princess] conceived, and bore Abraham [Father of a multitude] a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.Verse 3Abraham [Father of a multitude] called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah [Princess] bore to him, Isaac [Laughter].Verse 4Abraham [Father of a multitude] circumcised his son, Isaac [Laughter], when he was eight days old, as God had enjoined him. (5)Verse 5Abraham [Father of a multitude] was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac [Laughter], was born to him.Verse 6Sarah [Princess] said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who sh'ma ·hears obeys· will laugh with me.”Verse 7She said, “Who would have said to Abraham [Father of a multitude], that Sarah [Princess] would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”Verse 8The child grew, and was cameled.+Abraham [Father of a multitude] made a great feast on the day that Isaac [Laughter] was cameled.Verse 9Sarah [Princess] saw the son of Hagar [Flight] the Egyptian [person from Abode of slavery], whom she had borne to Abraham [Father of a multitude], metzahek ·lewd and irreverent jokes·.+Verse 10Therefore she said to Abraham [Father of a multitude], “Divorce and cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac [Laughter].”+Verse 11The thing was very grievous in Abraham [Father of a multitude]’s sight on account of his son.Verse 12God said to Abraham [Father of a multitude], “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah [Princess] says to you, sh'ma ·hear obey· her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac [Laughter].+Verse 13I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”Verse 14Abraham [Father of a multitude] rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar [Flight], putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva [Well of Seven, Well of an Oath].Verse 15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.Verse 16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.Verse 17God sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the voice of the boy. Ha mal'ak Elohim [The Angel of God] called to Hagar [Flight] out of the sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar [Flight]? Don’t be afraid. For God has sh'ma ·hear obey· the voice of the boy where he is.Verse 18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”Verse 19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.Verse 20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.Verse 21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. (6)Verse 22At that time, Abimelech [My father king] and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham [Father of a multitude], saying, “God is with you in all that you do.Verse 23Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the chesed ·loving-kindness· that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”Verse 24Abraham [Father of a multitude] said, “I will swear.”Verse 25Abraham [Father of a multitude] complained to Abimelech [My father king] because of a water well, which Abimelech [My father king]’s servants had violently taken away.Verse 26Abimelech [My father king] said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t sh'ma ·heard obeyed· of it until today.”Verse 27Abraham [Father of a multitude] took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech [My father king]. Those two made a covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·.Verse 28Abraham [Father of a multitude] set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.Verse 29Abimelech [My father king] said to Abraham [Father of a multitude], “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”Verse 30He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”Verse 31Therefore he called that place Be'er-Sheva [Well of Seven, Well of an Oath], because they both swore there.Verse 32So they made a covenant at Be'er-Sheva [Well of Seven, Well of an Oath]. Abimelech [My father king] rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines [To roll in dust (As an insult)].Verse 33Abraham [Father of a multitude] planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheva [Well of Seven, Well of an Oath], and called there on the name of Adonai, the El 'Olam [God Everlasting].Verse 34Abraham [Father of a multitude] lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines [To roll in dust (As an insult)] many days.