Genesis 21 - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

1The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.

2And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

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10 and wept.

17And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

18Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation.”

19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

20And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.

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

22At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do;

23now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

24And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

25When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized,

26Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”

27So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

29And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?”

30He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

31 because there both of them swore an oath.

32So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

34And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.