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Genesis 21

About Genesis Genesis tells of creation, the first sin, the flood, and God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.SelectedGenesis 21:1Ask

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.SelectedGenesis 21:2Ask

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.SelectedGenesis 21:3Ask

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.SelectedGenesis 21:4Ask

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.SelectedGenesis 21:5Ask

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.SelectedGenesis 21:6Ask

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.SelectedGenesis 21:7Ask

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.SelectedGenesis 21:8Ask

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.SelectedGenesis 21:9Ask

Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.SelectedGenesis 21:10Ask

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.SelectedGenesis 21:11Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:12Ask

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.SelectedGenesis 21:13Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:14Ask

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.SelectedGenesis 21:15Ask

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: 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.SelectedGenesis 21:16Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:17Ask

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

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.SelectedGenesis 21:19Ask

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

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

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:SelectedGenesis 21:22Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:23Ask

And Abraham said, I will swear.SelectedGenesis 21:24Ask

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.SelectedGenesis 21:25Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:26Ask

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

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.SelectedGenesis 21:28Ask

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?SelectedGenesis 21:29Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:30Ask

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.SelectedGenesis 21:31Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 21:32Ask

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.SelectedGenesis 21:33Ask

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.SelectedGenesis 21:34Ask

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