Genesis 21

2  Sara conceived and bore a son to Avraham in his old age, at the set time of which Hashem had spoken.

3  Avraham gave his newborn son, whom Sara had borne him, the name of Yitzchak.

4  And when his son Yitzchak was eight days old, Avraham circumcised him, as Hashem had commanded him.

5  Now Avraham was a hundred years old when his son Yitzchak was born to him.

6  Sara said, “Hashem has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

7  And she added, “Who would have said to Avraham That Sara would suckle children! Yet I have borne a son in his old age.”

8  The child grew up and was weaned, and Avraham held a great feast on the day that Yitzchak was weaned.

9  Sara saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Avraham playing.

10  She said to Avraham, “Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Yitzchak.”

11  The matter distressed Avraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his.

12  But Hashem said to Avraham, “Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sara tells you, do as she says, for it is through Yitzchak that offspring shall be continued for you.

13  As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed.”

14  Early next morning Avraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Be’er Sheva.

15  When the water was gone from the skin, she left the child under one of the bushes,

16  and went and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, “Let me not look on as the child dies.” And sitting thus afar, she burst into tears.

17  Hashem heard the cry of the boy, and an angel of Hashem called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for Hashem has heeded the cry of the boy where he is.

18  Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

19  Then Hashem opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink.

20  Hashem was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became a bowman.

21  He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22  At that time Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, said to Avraham, “Hashem is with you in everything that you do.

23  Therefore swear to me here by Hashem that you will not deal falsely with me or with my kith and kin, but will deal with me and with the land in which you have sojourned as loyally as I have dealt with you.”

24  And Avraham said, “I swear it.”

25  Then Avraham reproached Abimelech for the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

26  But Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this; you did not tell me, nor have I heard of it until today.”

27  Avraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a pact.

28  Avraham then set seven ewes of the flock by themselves,

29  and Abimelech said to Avraham, “What mean these seven ewes which you have set apart?”

30  He replied, “You are to accept these seven ewes from me as proof that I dug this well.”

32  When they had concluded the pact at Be’er Sheva, Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, departed and returned to the land of the Philistines.

34  And Avraham resided in the land of the Philistines a long time.