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Genesis 21:3-16 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

3. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4. And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5. And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

6. And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me.”

7. And she said, “Who would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age.”

8. And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.

10. Then she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac.”

11. And the matter displeased Abraham very much on account of his son.

12. Then God said to Abraham, “Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. Listen to everything that Sarah said to you, for through Isaac your offspring will be named.

13. And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring.”

14. Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.

15. And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.

16. And she went and she sat a good distance away, for she said, “Let me not see the child’s death.” So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.

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