The Birth of Isaac 1 AKJV And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken. BSB BSB: Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
2 AKJV For Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. BSB BSB: So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
3 AKJV And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. BSB BSB: And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
4 AKJV And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. BSB BSB: When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
5 AKJV And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. BSB BSB: Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 AKJV And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. BSB BSB: Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
7 AKJV And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. BSB BSB: She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 AKJV And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. BSB BSB: So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Sarah Turns against Hagar (Galatians 4:21–30)
9 AKJV And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born to Abraham, mocking. BSB BSB: But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
10 AKJV Why she said to Abraham, Cast out this female slave and her son: for the son of this female slave shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. BSB BSB: and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
11 AKJV And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. BSB BSB: Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
13 AKJV And also of the son of the female slave will I make a nation, because he is your seed. BSB BSB: But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
14 AKJV And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. BSB BSB: Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
15 AKJV And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. BSB BSB: When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
16 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
18 AKJV Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your hand; for I will make him a great nation. BSB BSB: Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 AKJV And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelled in the wilderness, and became an archer. BSB BSB: And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
21 AKJV And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. BSB BSB: And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
The Covenant at Beersheba 22 AKJV And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do: BSB BSB: At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
23 AKJV Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land wherein you have sojourned. BSB BSB: Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
24 AKJV And Abraham said, I will swear. BSB BSB: And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
25 AKJV And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. BSB BSB: But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
26 AKJV And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day. BSB BSB: Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
27 AKJV And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. BSB BSB: So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
28 AKJV And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. BSB BSB: Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
29 AKJV And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves? BSB BSB: and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
30 AKJV And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have dig this well. BSB BSB: He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
31 AKJV Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them. BSB BSB: So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
32 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 AKJV And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. BSB BSB: And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
34 AKJV And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days. BSB BSB: And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.