Gênesis 21

1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.*21:3 Isaac means "He laughs". 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." 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."

8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 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."

11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. 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. 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child." 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. 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs. 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. 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. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

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.

20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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. 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."

24 Abraham said, "I will swear." 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 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."

27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?"

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." 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,*21:31 Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven". because they both swore an oath there. 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. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

Te Whānautanga o Īhaka

1 Nā, ka tirohia mai a Hara e Ihowā, ka pērātia me tāna i kōrero ai, ā, rite tonu ki tāna kupu tā Ihowā i mea ai ki a Hara. 2 Nā, ka hapū a Hara, ā, ka whānau he tama mā Āperahama i tōna koroheketanga i te wā anō i whakaritea e te Atua ki a ia. 3 Nā, ka huaina e Āperahama te ingoa o tāna tama i whānau nei māna, i whānau mai nei i a Hara, ko Īhaka. 4 Ā, ka waru ōna rā, ka kotia e Āperahama a Īhaka, tāna tama, ka pērātia me tā te Atua i whakahau ai ki a ia. 5 Ā, kotahi rau ngā tau o Āperahama i te whānautanga o tāna tama, o Īhaka.

6 Nā, ka mea a Hara, "Kua meinga ahau e te Atua kia kata; ā, ka kata tahi mātou ko ngā tāngata e rongo mai ana." 7 Ā, i mea anō ia, "Ko wai ō mua hei mea ki a Āperahama, tērā e whakangote tamariki a Hara? Kua whānau nei i ahau he tama māna, i a ia kua koroheketia."

I Tonoa atu a Hakara rāua ko Ihimaera

8 Nā, ka tupu te tamaiti rā, ā, ka whakamutua tāna kai ū; nā, ka tukua e Āperahama tētahi hākari nui i te rā i whakamutua ai te ngote ū a Īhaka. 9 Ā, ka kite a Hara i te tama a Hakara, a te wahine o Īhipa, i whānau nei i a rāua ko Āperahama, e kata whakahāwea ana. 10 Nā, ka mea ia ki a Āperahama, "Peia atu tēnei pononga me tāna tama. E kore rawa te tama a tēnei wahine pononga e tū tahi me tāku tama, me Īhaka, i ngā whakarerenga iho."

11 Ā, ko taua mea he hē rawa ki te titiro a Āperahama, ko tāna tama hoki ia. 12 Ka mea te Atua ki a Āperahama, "Kei kino tēnā ki tāu titiro, kaua e whakaaro ki te tamaiti rāua ko tāu pononga wahine. Engari, i ngā mea katoa i kōrero ai a Hara ki a koe, whakarongo atu ki tōna reo; kei a Īhaka hoki te karangatanga mō tōu uri. 13 Nā, ko te tama a te pononga wahine, ka meinga ia e ahau hei iwi, nō te mea he uri ia nōu."

14 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Āperahama i te ata, ka mau ki tētahi taro, ki tētahi tahā wai, ā, hoatu ana e ia ki a Hakara, whakawahā ana ki tōna pokohiwi, me te tamaiti hoki, ā, tonoa atu ana. Nā, ka haere ia, ka kōpikopiko i te koraha o Peerehepa.

15 Ā, ka pau te wai i roto i te tahā, nā, whakarērea iho e ia te tamaiti i raro i tētahi rākau iti. 16 Nā, ka haere ia, ā, ka noho mai i tawhiti, me te anga nui mai anō ki a ia, he pērā te matara me te taunga pere; i mea hoki ia, "Kei kite ahau i te matenga o te tamaiti." Nā, ka noho ia me te aronui mai anō ki a ia, ā, ka puaki tōna reo, ka tangi.

17 Ā, i rongo te Atua ki te reo o te tamaiti, ā, ka karanga mai te anahera a te Atua ki a Hakara i runga i te rangi, ka mea ki a ia, "He aha kei a koe, e Hakara? Kaua e wehi; kua rongo hoki te Atua ki te reo o te tamaiti i a ia e takoto nā. 18 Whakatika, hāpainga ake te tamaiti, puritia hoki ki tōu ringa; nō te mea ka meinga ia e ahau hei iwi nui."

19 Nā, ka whakatirohia e te Atua ōna kanohi, ā, ka kite ia i tētahi puna wai. Nā, ka haere ia, ka whakakī i te tahā ki te wai, ā, whakainumia ana te tamaiti.

20 Ā, i noho te Atua ki te tamaiti, ā, ka tupu ia; i noho ia i te koraha, ā, ka mōhio ki te kōpere. 21 Nā, ka noho ia ki te koraha o Parana; ā, ka tīkina atu e tōna whaea he wahine māna i te whenua o Īhipa.

Te Kawenata i Waenga i a Āperahama me Apīmereke

22 Ā, i taua wā anō ka kōrero a Apīmereke rāua ko Pikora, ko te rangatira o tāna ope, ki a Āperahama, ka mea, "Nā, kei a koe te Atua i ngā mea katoa e mea ai koe; 23 tēnā oatitia mai te Atua ki ahau, e kore koe e teka ki ahau, ki tāku tama, ki te tama rānei a tāku tama. Engari ka rite ki te aroha i whakaputaina e ahau ki a koe tāu mahi ki ahau, ki te whenua anō hoki i noho nei koe."

24 Nā, ka mea a Āperahama, "Ka oati ahau."

25 Nā, ka whakawā a Āperahama i a Apīmereke mō tētahi puna wai i murua e ngā tāngata a Apīmereke. 26 Nā, ka mea a Apīmereke, "Kāhore ahau e mōhio nā wai rānei tēnei mahi. Kīhai hoki koe i kōrero mai ki ahau, ā, kīhai ahau i rongo, nō tēnei rā tonu."

27 Nā, ka tīkina e Āperahama he hipi, he kau, ka hoatu ki a Apīmereke; nā, ka whakarite kawenata rāua. 28 Nā, ka wehea e Āperahama ki tahaki e whitu ngā reme uha o ngā hipi. 29 Ā, ka mea a Apīmereke ki a Āperahama, "He aha te tikanga o ēnei reme uha e whitu i wehea nei e koe ki tahaki?"

30 Ka mea ia, "Ko ēnei reme uha e whitu me tango e koe i tōku ringa, kia ai ēnei mea hei whakaatu māku, nāku i keri tēnei poka."

31 Nā, reira i huaina ai e ia taua wāhi ko Peerehepa; nō rāua hoki i oati ki reira.

32 Heoi, whakaritea ana e rāua te kawenata i Peerehepa. Ā, ka whakatika a Apīmereke rāua ko Pikora, ko te rangatira o tāna ope, ā, hoki ana ki te whenua o ngā Pirihitini. 33 Nā, ka whakatōkia e Āperahama he rākau, he tamarihi, ki Peerehepa, ā, ka karanga i reira ki te ingoa o Ihowā, o te Atua ora tonu. 34 Ā, ka noho a Āperahama ki te whenua o ngā Pirihitini mō ngā rā maha.