16. Then she went and sat herself down opposite, about a bowshot away, for she had said, “I can’t bear to see the child dying!” So she sat down opposite and lifted up her voice and wept.
17. Then God heard the boy’s voice and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and He said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, because God has heard the boy’s voice where he is.
18. Get up! Lift the boy up, and hold on to him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
19. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled the water skin, and gave the boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy and he grew. He dwelled in the wilderness and became an archer.
21. He dwelled in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22. Now it came about at that same time that Abimelech—with Phicol the commander of his army---said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
23. So now, make a pledge to me here, by God, that you will not violate your word with me or with my descendants or with my offspring. As I have shown loyalty to you, show the same to me, and to the land in which you have lived as an outsider.”
24. Abraham said, “I make a pledge.”
25. Now Abraham had rebuked Abimelech because of the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
26. So Abimelech said, “I don’t know who did this thing. Nor did you tell me, nor did I hear about it until today.”
27. Then Abraham took a flock of sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28. Abraham set seven young ewe-lambs apart from the flock of sheep by themselves.
29. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe-lambs that you’ve set by themselves mean?”
30. He said, “You are to accept the seven ewe-lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
31. That is why that place is named Beer-sheba, because there both of them made a pledge,
32. and they made a covenant in Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech got up, with Phicol the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Then he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and called there on the Name of Adonai, the Everlasting God.
34. He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.