And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called (21:12)

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he [is] thy seed (21:13)

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba (21:14)

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs (21:15)

And she went, and sat her down over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lift up her voice, and wept (21:16)

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he [is] (21:17)

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation (21:18)

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink (21:19)

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer (21:20)

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt (21:21)

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest: (21:22)

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned (21:23)

And Abraham said, I will swear (21:24)

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away (21:25)

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day (21:26)

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant (21:27)

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves (21:28)

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? (21:29)

And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well (21:30)

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them (21:31)

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines (21:32)

And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God (21:33)

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days (21:34)

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