Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
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 Gen 21:1 |
And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. |
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Gen 21:2 |
For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. |
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Gen 21:3 |
And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him--whom Sarah bore to him--Isaac. |
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Gen 21:4 |
Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. |
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Gen 21:5 |
Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. |
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Gen 21:6 |
And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, [and] all who hear will laugh with me." |
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Gen 21:7 |
She also said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age." |
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Gen 21:8 |
So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned. |
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Gen 21:9 |
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. |
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Gen 21:10 |
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, [namely] with Isaac." |
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Gen 21:11 |
And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham's sight because of his son. |
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Gen 21:12 |
But God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. |
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Gen 21:13 |
"Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he [is] your seed." |
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Gen 21:14 |
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting [it] on her shoulder, he gave [it] and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. |
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Gen 21:15 |
And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. |
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Gen 21:16 |
Then she went and sat down across from [him] at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, "Let me not see the death of the boy." So she sat opposite [him], and lifted her voice and wept. |
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Gen 21:17 |
And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he [is]. |
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Gen 21:18 |
"Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation." |
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Gen 21:19 |
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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Gen 21:20 |
So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. |
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Gen 21:21 |
He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. |
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Gen 21:22 |
And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God [is] with you in all that you do. |
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Gen 21:23 |
"Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring, or with my posterity; but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you will do to me and to the land in which you have dwelt." |
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Gen 21:24 |
And Abraham said, "I will swear." |
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Gen 21:25 |
Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized. |
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Gen 21:26 |
And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor had I heard [of it] until today." |
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Gen 21:27 |
So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. |
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Gen 21:28 |
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. |
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Gen 21:29 |
Then Abimelech asked Abraham, "What [is the meaning of] these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?" |
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Gen 21:30 |
And he said, "You will take [these] seven ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well." |
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Gen 21:31 |
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, [fn] because the two of them swore an oath there. |
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Gen 21:32 |
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. So Abimelech rose with Phichol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines. |
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Gen 21:33 |
Then [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. |
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Gen 21:34 |
And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days. |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (21:31) Literally Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven
