# Genesis 21

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/21

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah as he had spoken.
2. Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had spoken of to him.
3. Abraham named his son born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4. Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5. Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
6. Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
7. She said, "Who would have spoken to Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
8. The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day of Isaac's weaning.
9. Sarah saw Hagar the Egyptian's son, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10. She said to Abraham, “Drive out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant will not inherit with my son, with Isaac.”
11. The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.
12. God said to Abraham, "Do not let it distress you because of the boy or because of your handmaid. Whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac your offspring will be named."
13. I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.
14. Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, gave them to Hagar by setting them on her shoulder, handed her the child, and sent her away. She set out and lost her way in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15. The water in the bottle was used up, and she threw the child under one of the shrubs.
16. She went and sat down apart from him at a distance like a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not see the child die." She sat opposite him, lifted up her voice, and wept.
17. God heard the boy's voice, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice there where he is."
18. Get up, lift the boy, and hold him fast 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 waterskin with water, and gave the boy drink.
20. God was with the boy, and he grew up and lived in the wilderness, and he became a great archer.
21. He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
22. At that time Abimelech and Phicol, commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do."
23. Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not lie to me, nor to my son, nor to my son's son, but deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned as the kindness I have shown you.
24. Abraham answered, "I will swear."
25. Abraham argued with Abimelech over the matter of the water well that Abimelech's servants had seized.
26. Abimelech replied, "I had no knowledge of who committed this deed, nor did you inform me, nor had I heard of it before today."
27. Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28. Abraham set seven ewe lambs from the sheep by themselves.
29. Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs mean that you set apart?"
30. He said, “Take these seven lambs from my hand, so they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.”
31. So he called that place Beersheba, because both of them swore there.
32. They cut a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech arose with Phicol, commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there upon the name of Yahweh the eternal God.
34. Abraham dwelt many days in the land of the Philistines.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/20.md)
[Genesis 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/22.md)

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