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And the Lord visited Sara , as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken .
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And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.
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And Abraham called the name of his son , whom Sara bore him, Isaac .
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And he circumcised him the eighth day , as God had commanded him,
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When he was a hundred years old : for at this age of his father was Isaac born .
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And Sara said : God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
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And again she said : Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son , whom she bore to him in his old age.
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And the child grew and was weaned : and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning .
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And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son , she said to Abraham :
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Cast out this bondwoman, and her son : for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac .
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Abraham took this grievously for his son .
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And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy , and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice : for in Isaac shall thy seed be called .
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But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation , because he is thy seed .
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So Abraham rose up in the morning , and taking bread and a bottle of water , put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy , and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
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And when the water in the bottle was spent , she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.
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And she went her way , and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said : I will not see the boy die : and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept .
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And God heard the voice of the boy : and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven , saying: What art thou doing, Agar ? fear not : for God hath heard the voice of the boy , from the place wherein he is.
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Arise , take up the boy , and hold him by the hand : for I will make him a great nation .
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And God opened her eyes : and she saw a well of water , and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.
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And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness , and became a young man, an archer .
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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt .
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At the same time Abimelech , and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham : God is with thee in all that thou dost.
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Swear therefore by God , that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
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And Abraham said : I will swear .
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And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water , which his servants had taken away by force.
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And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till to day .
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And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech : and both of them made a league.
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And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock .
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And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?
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But he said : Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand : that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well .
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Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear .
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And they made a league for the well of oath.
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And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal .
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And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days .