Genesis 20–21

20^*And Abraham journeyed from ^athence toward the south country, and dwelled between ^bKadesh and Shur, and ^csojourned in ^dGerar. ²And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, ^eShe is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. ³But ^fGod came to Abimelech ^gin a dream by night, and said to him, ^hBehold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is ^†a man’s wife. ⁴But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, ⁱwilt thou slay also a righteous nation? ⁵Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the ^||integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. ⁶And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning ^kagainst me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. ⁷Now therefore restore the man his wife; ^lfor he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, ^mand all that are thine. ⁸Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. ⁹Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me ⁿthat ought not to be done. ¹⁰And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? ¹¹And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely ^othe fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake. ¹²And yet indeed ^pshe is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. ¹³And it came to pass, when ^qGod caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, ^rsay of me, He is my brother. ¹⁴And Abimelech ^stook sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. ¹⁵And Abimelech said, Behold, ^tmy land is before thee: dwell ^†where it pleaseth thee. ¹⁶And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given ^uthy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee ^xa covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was ^yreproved. ¹⁷So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. ¹⁸For the Lord ^zhad fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

21And the Lord ^avisited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah ^bas he had spoken. ²For Sarah ^cconceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, ^dat the set time of which God had spoken to him. ³And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, ^eIsaac. ⁴And Abraham ^fcircumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, ^gas God had commanded him. ⁵And ^hAbraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ⁶And Sarah said, ⁱGod hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. ⁷And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? ^kfor I have born him a son in his old age. ⁸And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹And Sarah saw the son of Hagar ^lthe Egyptian, ^mwhich she had born unto Abraham, ⁿmocking. ¹⁰Wherefore she said unto Abraham, ^oCast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. ¹¹And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight ^pbecause of his son. ¹²And 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 ^qin Isaac shall thy seed be called. ¹³And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make ^ra nation, because he is thy seed. ¹⁴And 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 ^sBeer-sheba. ¹⁵And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. ¹⁹And 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. ²⁰And God ^twas with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, ^uand became an archer. ²¹And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother ^xtook him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

²²And it came to pass at that time, that ^yAbimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, ^zGod is with thee in all that thou doest: ²³Now therefore ^aswear unto me here by God ^†that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor ^bwith my son, nor ^bwith 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. ²⁴And Abraham said, I will swear. ²⁵And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants ^chad violently taken away. ²⁶And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day. ²⁷And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them ^dmade a covenant. ²⁸And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹And Abimelech said unto Abraham, ^eWhat mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? ³⁰And 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. ³¹Wherefore he ^fcalled that place ^||Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. ³²Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. ³³And Abraham planted a ^||grove in Beer-sheba, and ^gcalled there on the name of the Lord, ^hthe everlasting God. ³⁴And Abraham sojourned in the ⁱPhilistines’ land many days.