BERESHITH (GENESIS) 21

Gen 21:1 And יהוה visited Sarah as He had said, and יהוה did for Sarah as
He had spoken.
Gen 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore Aḇraham a son in his old age, at the
appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
Gen 21:3 And Aḇraham called the name of his son who was born to him,
whom Sarah bore to him, Yitsḥaq.
Gen 21:4 And Aḇraham circumcised his son Yitsḥaq when he was eight days
old, as Elohim had commanded him.
Gen 21:5 And Aḇraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitsḥaq
was born to him.
Gen 21:6 And Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh, and everyone who
hears of it laughs with me.”
Gen 21:7 And she said, “Who would have said to Aḇraham that Sarah
would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Gen 21:8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Aḇraham made a great
feast on the day that Yitsḥaq was weaned.
Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrite, whom she had borne
to Aḇraham, mocking.
Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this female servant and her
son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with
Yitsḥaq.”
Gen 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Aḇraham because of
his son.
Gen 21:12 But Elohim said to Aḇraham, “Let it not be evil in your eyes
because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has
said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsḥaq your seed is called.
Gen 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant I also make a nation,
because he is your seed.”
Gen 21:14 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a
skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the
boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of
Be’ĕrsheḇa.
Gen 21:15 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy
under one of the shrubs.
Gen 21:16 And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said,
“Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted
her voice and wept.
Gen 21:17 And Elohim heard the voice of the boy, and the messenger of
Elohim called to Haḡar from the heavens, and said to her, “What is the matter
with you, Haḡar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy
where he is.
Gen 21:18 “Arise, lift up the boy and hold him with your hand, for I make a
great nation of him.”
Gen 21:19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And
she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Gen 21:20 And Elohim was with the boy, and he grew and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a
wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 21:22 And it came to be at that time that Aḇimeleḵ and Piḵol, the
commander of his army, spoke to Aḇraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all
that you do.
Gen 21:23 “And now, swear to me by Elohim, not to be untrue to me, to my
offspring, or to my descendants. Do to me according to the kindness that I
have done to you and to the land in which you have dwelt.”
Gen 21:24 And Aḇraham said, “I swear.”
Gen 21:25 And Aḇraham reproved Aḇimeleḵ because of a well of water
which Aḇimeleḵ’s servants had seized.
Gen 21:26 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “I do not know who has done this deed.
Neither did you inform me, nor did I hear until today.”
Gen 21:27 So Aḇraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Aḇimeleḵ,
and the two of them made a covenant.
Gen 21:28 And Aḇraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Gen 21:29 And Aḇimeleḵ asked Aḇraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs
which you have set by themselves?”
Gen 21:30 And he said, “Take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, to be
my witness that I have dug this well.”
Gen 21:31 So he called that place Be’ĕrsheḇa, because the two of them
swore an oath there.
Gen 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Aḇimeleḵ rose
with Piḵol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the
Philistines.
Gen 21:33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be’ĕrsheḇa, and there called on
the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ĕl.
Gen 21:34 And Aḇraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.