Read Genesis 21

World English Bible · 34 verses

1. ¹ Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ She 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 opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ Now, 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 kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ Abraham said, “I will swear.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ He 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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