Genesis 21 (CTH)

1BAWIPA ni a dei tangcoung e patetlah Sarah koe a pai teh a lawkkam pouh e patetlah Sarah hanelah a sak pouh.Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

2Hahoi, ahni koe a dei pouh tangcoung e patetlah Cathut ni a khoe pouh e tueng navah Sarah ni camo a vawn teh, a matawng hnukkhu Abraham hanelah tongpa a khe pouh.So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

3Abraham ni hai a tawn e capa, Sarah ni a khe pouh e hah Isak telah min a phung.And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

4Hottelah, Cathut ni kâ a poe tangcoung e patetlah Abraham ni a capa Isak hah ataroe hnin navah vuensom a a pouh.When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

5Abraham teh a capa Isak a khe navah kum 100 touh a pha toe.Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6Sarah ni hai kai ka panuithainae Cathut ni na poe toe. Hete kamthang ka thai e pueng ni hai kai hoi cungtalah a panui van awh han doeh telah ati.Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

7Sarah ni camo sanu a pânei han telah Abraham koe apinimaw ouk a dei pouh. A matawng torei kai ni ca tongpa ka khe pouh toe telah ati.She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

8Hottelah, camo a roung takhang teh sanu a pâphei. Sanu a pâphei nah hnin dawk Abraham ni buven pawi kalenpounge a sak.So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

9Izip tami Hagar capa, Abraham hanelah a khe pouh e ni a panuikhai e hah Sarah ni a hmu.But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

10Hatdawkvah, Abraham koevah, Hete sannu hoi a capa pâlei leih, bangkongtetpawiteh sannu e capa ni ka capa e râw coe thai mahoeh telah atipouh.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!”

11A capa lah ao kecu dawk Abraham hanelah hno ka ru poung lah ao.Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

12Hatei Cathut ni Abraham koe, camo hoi na sannu kong dawk hno ka ru lah pouk hanh. Sarah ni a dei e pueng tarawi loe. Bangkongtetpawiteh Isak dawk hoi na catoun telah kaw e lah ao han.But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

13Na sannu e capa dawk hai miphun ka pungdaw sak han. Bangkongtetpawiteh ahni hai na ca doeh telah atipouh.But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

14Hottelah amom vah Abraham a thaw teh vaiyei hoi tuium a la teh Hagar e aloung dawk a patue pouh hnukkhu, camo hoi a ceisak. A cei roi teh Beersheba kahrawngum vah yuengyoe a kâva roi.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.

15Tuium dawk e tui a baw hnukkhu camo hah buruk rahim a hruek.When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

16Pala vai touh ka sittouh bang hane a cei teh, hnuklah a kangvawi laihoi a tahung hnukkhu, camo due e na hmawt sak hanh loe telah ati. Hottelah hnuklah a kangvawi laihoi a tahung teh puenghoi kacaipounglah a ka.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.

17Camo lawk Cathut ni a thai teh Cathut kalvantami ni kalvan lahoi Hagar a kaw teh, Hagar bangmaw runae na kâhmo. Taket hanh, camo e lawk Cathut ni a thai toe atipouh.Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.

18Thaw nateh camo hah na kut hoi pathaw leih, bangkongtetpawiteh miphun kalen poung lah kacoungsak han telah atipouh.Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

19Cathut ni a mit ang sak teh tuikhu buet touh a hmu. A cei teh tuium dawk yikkawi a do hnukkhu camo a pânei.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.

20Cathut teh camo koe lah a o, ahni teh a roung takhang teh, kahrawngum vah kho a sak teh moikathaipounge lah ao.And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

21Paran kahrawngum vah kho a sak teh a manu ni a yu lah Izip tami a la pouh.And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22Hatnae tueng dawk Abimelek hoi ransahu kaukkung Phikhol ni Abraham koevah, na sak e hno pueng dawk Cathut ni na okhai.At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

23Hatdawkvah Cathut minhmai khet lahoi kai hoi ka capa catoun totouh dumyennae awm laipalah na pahren e patetlah kai hoi na onae ram heh a hawinae ka hmu nahanelah lawk na kam pouh leih telah atipouh.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.”

24Abraham ni hai, lawkkam han atipouh.And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

25Abimelek e a sannaw ni tuikhu a lawp dawkvah Abraham ni Abimelek a yue.But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

26Abimelek ni, hot patet hno ka sak e teh apimaw. Ka panuek hoeh, nang ni hai na dei hoeh. Kai ni hai sahnin totouh ka panuek hoeh atipouh.Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

27Hottelah, Abraham ni tu hoi maitotan a hrawi teh Abimelek a poe, hahoi kahni touh hoi lawkkamnae a sak roi.So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28Abraham ni tuhu dawk e tulaca sari touh alouklah a kapek.Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

29Abimelek ni Abraham koevah tulaca sari touh na ka pek e, bang hane maw atipouh.and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

30Ahni ni hete tuikhu ka tai e heh kapanuekkhaikung lah tulaca sari touh e ka kut dawk e na la roeroe han telah atipouh.He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

31Hote hmuen koe kahni touh hoi lawkkamnae a sak roi dawkvah Beersheba telah min a phung.So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

32Hottelah Beersheba vah lawkkamnae a sak roi hnukkhu Abimelek hoi ransabawi Phikhol tinaw a thaw awh teh Filistin ram lah a ban awh.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.

33Abraham ni Beersheba vah hmaicakung a ung teh haw vah BAWIPA yungyoe Cathut e min a kaw.And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

34Hahoi, Abimelek teh Filistin ram dawk hnin moi kasawlah a cam.And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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