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Genesis 21:1-12 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.

2. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time that God had spoken to him.

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

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

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

6. And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. All who hear will laugh with me.”

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

8. So the child grew and was weaned. Then Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

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

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

11. This matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

12. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset concerning the boy and your slave wife. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to what she says, for in Isaac your descendants will be called.

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