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Genesis 21:1-21

Listen to Genesis 21:1-21
1 The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
2 Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 Avraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Yitzchak.
4 Avraham circumcised his son, Yitzchak, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 Avraham was one hundred years old when his son, Yitzchak, was born to him.
6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
7 She said, "Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
8 The child grew, and was weaned. Avraham made a great feast on the day that Yitzchak was weaned.
9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Mitzrian, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking.
10 Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Yitzchak."
11 The thing was very grievous in Avraham's sight on account of his son.
12 God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.
13 Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."
14 Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.
15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Mitzrayim.

Genesis 21:1-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 21

This chapter gives an account of the conception, birth, circumcision, and weaning of Isaac, Ge 21:1-8; of the mocking of Ishmael, and of the casting out of him and his mother from Abraham's house, at the request of Sarah, which, though grievous to Abraham, he complied with at the direction of God, Ge 21:9-13; of the provision Abraham made for their departure, and of the supply they met with in the wilderness from God, where Ishmael was brought up, and where he married, Ge 21:14-21; and of a covenant between Abraham and Abimelech, king of Gerar, Ge 21:22-32; and of Abraham's planting a grove, and calling on the name of the Lord, Ge 21:33; and the chapter is closed with this observation, that Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days, Ge 21:34.

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