And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest.

Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee."

Wherefore the place is called Beersheba, because they sware both of them.

Then said Abraham, "I will swear."

And he answered, "Seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well."

Thus made they a bond together at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol his chief Captain rose up and turned again unto the land of the Philistines.

and dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.

The LORD visited Sara as he had said, and did unto her according as he had spoken.

And Abraham planted a wood in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God:

And Abraham set seven lambs by themselves.

And Abimelech answered, "I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it, but this day."

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together.

Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?"

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.

Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.

And God heard the voice of the child. And the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, "What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the child where he lieth.

Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

And Sara said, "God hath made me a laughingstock: for all that hear, will laugh at me."

And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed."

And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will make of him a great people."

And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:

When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush

and went and sat her out of sight a great way; as it were a bowshot off. For she said, "I will not see the lad die." And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.

and Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him.

She said also, "Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age?"

But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.