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Isaac
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Genesis 21:1
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Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said,
and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised. |
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Genesis 21:2
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham
in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. |
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Genesis 21:3
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Abraham called the name of his son who was born
to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. |
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Genesis 21:4
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Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when
he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. |
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Genesis 21:5
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Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his
son Isaac was born to him. |
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Genesis 21:6
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Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone
who hears will laugh with me." |
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Genesis 21:7
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And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham
that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." |
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Genesis 21:8
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The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made
a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. |
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Sarah Turns against Hagar |
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Genesis 21:9
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Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. |
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Genesis 21:10
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Therefore she said to Abraham, "Drive out this
maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac."
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Genesis 21:11
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The matter distressed Abraham greatly because
of his son. |
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Genesis 21:12
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But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed
because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for
through Isaac your descendants shall be named. |
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Genesis 21:13
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"And of the son of the maid I will make a nation
also, because he is your descendant." |
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Genesis 21:14
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So Abraham rose early in the morning and took
bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder,
and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in
the wilderness of Beersheba. |
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Genesis 21:15
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When the water in the skin was used up, she
left the boy under one of the bushes. |
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Genesis 21:16
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Then she went and sat down opposite him, about
a bowshot away, for she said, "Do not let me see the boy die." And she sat opposite
him, and lifted up her voice and wept. |
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Genesis 21:17
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God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God
called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar?
Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. |
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Genesis 21:18
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"Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the
hand, for I will make a great nation of him." |
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Genesis 21:19
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Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well
of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink. |
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Genesis 21:20
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God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived
in the wilderness and became an archer. |
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Genesis 21:21
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his
mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. |
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Covenant
with Abimelech |
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Genesis 21:22
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Now it came about at that time that Abimelech
and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with
you in all that you do; |
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Genesis 21:23
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now therefore, swear to me here by God that
you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but
according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to
the land in which you have sojourned." |
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Genesis 21:24
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Abraham said, "I swear it." |
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Genesis 21:25
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But Abraham complained to Abimelech because
of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized. |
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Genesis 21:26
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And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done
this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today." |
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Genesis 21:27
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Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to
Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. |
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Genesis 21:28
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Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock
by themselves. |
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Genesis 21:29
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Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven
ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?" |
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Genesis 21:30
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He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs
from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well." |
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Genesis 21:31
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Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because
there the two of them took an oath. |
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Genesis 21:32
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech
and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Genesis 21:33
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba,
and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. |
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Genesis 21:34
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And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines
for many days. |
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