Genesis 21 (NET)

Genesis 21:1¹The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:2²So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:3³Abraham named his son—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:4⁴When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:5⁵(Now Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:6⁶Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:7⁷She went on to say, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:8⁸The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:9⁹But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian—the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham—mocking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:10¹⁰So she said to Abraham, “Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:11¹¹Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:12¹²But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:13¹³But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:14¹⁴Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:15¹⁵When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:16¹⁶Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought, “I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:17¹⁷But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:18¹⁸Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:19¹⁹Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:20²⁰God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:21²¹He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:22²²At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:23²³Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:24²⁴Abraham said, “I swear to do this.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:25²⁵But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:26²⁶“I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:27²⁷Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:28²⁸Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:29²⁹Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:30³⁰He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:31³¹That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:32³²So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba; then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:33³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 21:34³⁴So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s