Genesis 21 (TDX)

1Aa le nitilike i Sarà t’Iehovà amy nitsara’ey, le nanoe’ Iehovà amy Sarà i nitsarae’ey.Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

2Niareñe t’i Sarà vaho nahatoly ana-dahy ho a i Avrahame amy haantera’ey amy andro namantañañ’ aze amy tsinaran’ Añaharey.So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

3Nimea’ i Avrahame añarañe ty hoe Ietsàke i ana-dahy nitoly ama’ey, i nasama’ i Sarà ho azey.And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

4Nisavare’ i Avrahame t’Ietsàk’ ana’e ami’ty andro’e fahavalo amy nandilian’ Añahare azey.When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

5Zato taoñe t’i Avrahame te nahatoly Ietsake ana’e.Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6Hoe t’i Sarà, Nampihehen’ Añahare iraho, vaho mitrao-piankahak’ amako ze hene mahajanjiñe ty amako.Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

7Tinovo’e ty hoe, Ia ty ho nanao ty hoe amy Avrahame te hampinono ajaja t’i Sarà? Ie nahatoly anake amy haantera’ey.She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

8Nitombo i ajajay vaho niotàñe, le nanao takataka t’i Avrahame amy andro nañota’e azey,So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

9fe niisa’ i Sarà te ninje’ Iesmaèle ana’ i Khagare nte-Mitsraime nisamahe’e ho a i Avrahamey,But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

10le hoe re amy Avrahame, Soiho añe i ondevo-ampelay naho i ana’ey, fa le lia’e tsy hitrao-dova am’ Ietsàk’ anako ty ana’ i ondevo-ampelay.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!”

11Haloviloviañe am-pahaoniña’ i Avrahame i hoe zay ty amy ana-dahi’ey.Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

12Fa hoe t’i Andrianañahare ama’e, Ko apo’o hampioremeñ’ azo i jolingay naho i ampela mpitoro’oy. Janjiño ze saontsie’ i Sarà, ze feo’e iaby ama’o, amy te Ietsàke ty hikanjiañe o tarira’oo.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.

13Hanoeko fifeheañe ka ty ana’ i mpitoro’o ampelay amy te tiri’o.But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

14Ie nañampitso amy loak’ àndroy, le nandrambe mofo t’i Avrahame naho rano an-kolitsena naho natolo’e amy Khagare, nasampe’e an-tsoro’e; le natolo’e aze ka i jolingay vaho nirahe’e mb’eo. Nienga re vaho nirererere am-patrambei’ i Beersevà añe.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.

15Ie nikapaike i rano an-kolitsenay le nakafi’e ambane rongoñe ao i kimosoy.When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

16Le nisitsitse, niambesatse tandrife aze amy ze ho taka-pilereñe ey fa hoe re: Lonike te tsy hahatrea ty fivetrahan’ anakoo. Aa le nitobòke marine eo re vaho nañonjo-peo nangololoike.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.

17Jinanjin’ Añahare ty feo’ i jolingay, le kinanji’ ty anjelin’ Añahare boak’ andikerañe ao t’i Khagare vaho nanoa’e ty hoe, O Khagare, ino o mañore azoo? Ko hemban-drehe, fa jinanjin’ Añahare ty feo’ i jolinga eiy.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.

18Miongaha, atroaro i jolingay le rambeso am-pità’o, amy te hanoeko foko ra’elahy.Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

19Aa le sinokan’ Añahare o fihaino’eo vaho nioni’e ty vovoñe aman-drano. Aa le nimb’ eo re, nampipea rano amy holitsènay vaho nampinoñe i jolingay.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.

20Taman’ Añahare i jolingay, le nihabey naho nimoneñe andratraratra añe vaho ninjare mpitàm-pale.And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

21Ie nitobok’ am-patrambei’ i Parane ao, le nangala’ i rene’e valy boak’e Mitsraime añe.And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22Ie henane zay nanao ty hoe amy Avrahame t’i Abimeleke naho i Pikole mpifehe o lahindefo’eo, Ama’o t’i Andrianañahare amy ze fanoe’o iaby.At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

23Aa le mifantà amako etoañe aman’ Añahare te tsy ho fañahie’o Iraho naho i anakoy naho ty anan’ anako; fa i fitretrezako ama’oy naho i tane nañialoa’oy ty anoa’o amako.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.”

24Le hoe t’i Avrahame: Ifantàko!And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

25Le nendaha’ i Avrahame t’i Abimeleke ty amy vovon-drano tinava’ o mpitoro’eoy,But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

26le hoe t’i Abimeleke, amoeako ze nanao izay, tsy sinaontsi’o amako ‘nio, fa androany te tsinanoko.Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

27Aa le nandrambe añondry naho añombe t’i Avrahame vaho natolo’e amy Abimeleke le nifañina ie roe.So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28Navì’ i Avrahame amo añondri’eo ty vi’e vave fito.Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

29Le hoe t’i Abimelek’ amy Avrahame, Ino o vi’e vave fito navi’oo?and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

30Hoe re, Rambeso an-tañako o vik’ añondry vave fito retiañe ho valolombeloñe amako te izaho ro nihaly ty vovoñe toy.He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

31Aa le natao ty hoe Beersevà i toetse zay; amy te nifañina eo iereo roe.So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

32Aa ie fa nifañina e Beersevà ao, le nimpoly mb’an-tane’ o nte-Pilistio mb’eo t’i Abimeleke naho i Pikole mpifehen-dahin-defo’e.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.

33Nambole kile raike e Beersevà ao t’i Avrahame vaho eo ro nikanjia’e ty tahina’ Iehovà Andrianañahare nainay donia.And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

34Le nañialo an-tane nte-Pilisty añe andro maro t’i Avrahame.And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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