Genesis 21

The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as he had spoken. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him about. Abraham named his son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac. Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, “God has made me laugh; everyone who hears will laugh with me.” She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not share the inheritance with my son, with Isaac.” The matter was very distressing to Abraham because of his son. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave woman. Listen to Sarah’s voice in all that she says to you, for through Isaac your offspring will be named. I will also make the son of the slave woman a nation, because he is your offspring.” Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, placing them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her away. She went off and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was used up, she put the boy down under one of the shrubs. She went and sat opposite him about a hundred yards away, for she said, “Let me not watch the boy die.” She sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept. God heard the boy’s voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the boy’s voice where he is. Get up, lift up the boy, and support him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.” God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. Now swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or my offspring or my descendants. Show me and the land where you have lived as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown you.” Abraham said, “I will swear.” Abraham confronted Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized. Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this. You did not tell me, and I had not heard of it until today.” Abraham took flocks and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. Abraham set seven ewe lambs from the flock apart by themselves. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs you have set apart mean?” He said, “You are to accept these seven ewe lambs from my hand as a witness for me that I dug this well.” That is why he called the place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath. They made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose and returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

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