1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.3 Abraham gave the name Isaac "to the son Sarah bore him.4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.6 Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."7 And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,10 and she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac."11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.12 But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring "will be reckoned.13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring."14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, "I cannot watch the boy die." And as she sat there, she "began to sob.17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you."24 Abraham said, "I swear it."25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek's servants had seized.26 But Abimelek said, "I don't know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today."27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?"30 He replied, "Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well."31 So that place was called Beersheba, "because the two men swore an oath there.32 After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

1 Visitavit autem Dominus Saram, sicut promiserat : et implevit qu locutus est. 2 Concepitque et peperit filium in senectute sua, tempore quo prdixerat ei Deus. 3 Vocavitque Abraham nomen filii sui, quem genuit ei Sara, Isaac : 4 et circumcidit eum octavo die, sicut prceperat ei Deus, 5 cum centum esset annorum : hac quippe tate patris, natus est Isaac. 6 Dixitque Sara : Risum fecit mihi Deus : quicumque audierit, corridebit mihi. 7 Rursumque ait : Quis auditurus crederet Abraham quod Sara lactaret filium, quem peperit et jam seni ? 8 Crevit igitur puer, et ablactatus est : fecitque Abraham grande convivium in die ablactationis ejus.9 Cumque vidisset Sara filium Agar gypti ludentem cum Isaac filio suo, dixit ad Abraham : 10 Ejice ancillam hanc, et filium ejus : non enim erit hres filius ancill cum filio meo Isaac. 11 Dure accepit hoc Abraham pro filio suo. 12 Cui dixit Deus : Non tibi videatur asperum super puero, et super ancilla tua : omnia qu dixerit tibi Sara, audi vocem ejus : quia in Isaac vocabitur tibi semen. 13 Sed et filium ancill faciam in gentem magnam, quia semen tuum est. 14 Surrexit itaque Abraham mane, et tollens panem et utrem aqu, imposuit scapul ejus, tradiditque puerum, et dimisit eam. Qu cum abiisset, errabat in solitudine Bersabee. 15 Cumque consumpta esset aqua in utre, abjecit puerum subter unam arborum, qu ibi erant. 16 Et abiit, seditque e regione procul quantum potest arcus jacere : dixit enim : Non videbo morientem puerum : et sedens contra, levavit vocem suam et flevit. 17 Exaudivit autem Deus vocem pueri : vocavitque angelus Dei Agar de clo, dicens : Quid agis Agar ? noli timere : exaudivit enim Deus vocem pueri de loco in quo est. 18 Surge, tolle puerum, et tene manum illius : quia in gentem magnam faciam eum. 19 Aperuitque oculos ejus Deus : qu videns puteum aqu, abiit, et implevit utrem, deditque puero bibere. 20 Et fuit cum eo : qui crevit, et moratus est in solitudine, factusque est juvenis sagittarius. 21 Habitavitque in deserto Pharan, et accepit illi mater sua uxorem de terra gypti.22 Eodem tempore dixit Abimelech, et Phicol princeps exercitus ejus, ad Abraham : Deus tecum est in universis qu agis. 23 Jura ergo per Deum, ne noceas mihi, et posteris meis, stirpique me : sed juxta misericordiam, quam feci tibi, facies mihi, et terr in qua versatus es advena. 24 Dixitque Abraham : Ego jurabo. 25 Et increpavit Abimelech propter puteum aqu quem vi abstulerunt servi ejus. 26 Responditque Abimelech : Nescivi quis fecerit hanc rem : sed et tu non indicasti mihi, et ego non audivi prter hodie. 27 Tulit itaque Abraham oves et boves, et dedit Abimelech : percusseruntque ambo fdus. 28 Et statuit Abraham septem agnas gregis seorsum. 29 Cui dixit Abimelech : Quid sibi volunt septem agn ist, quas stare fecisti seorsum ? 30 At ille : Septem, inquit, agnas accipies de manu mea : ut sint mihi in testimonium, quoniam ego fodi puteum istum. 31 Idcirco vocatus est locus ille Bersabee : quia ibi uterque juravit. 32 Et inierunt fdus pro puteo juramenti. 33 Surrexit autem Abimelech, et Phicol princeps exercitus ejus, reversique sunt in terram Palstinorum. Abraham vero plantavit nemus in Bersabee, et invocavit ibi nomen Domini Dei terni. 34 Et fuit colonus terr Palstinorum diebus multis.