Genesis 21:23-33

23 Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God that thou wylt not hurt me nor my childern nor my childerns childern. But that thou shalt deale with me and the contre where thou art a straunger acordynge vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed the.

24 Then sayde Abraham: I wyll swere.

25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech servauntes had taken awaye.

26 And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd it: Also thou toldest me not nether herde I of it but this daye.

27 And Abraham toke shepe and oxen and gaue them vnto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bonde together.

28 And Abraham sett vij. lambes by them selues.

29 And Abimelech sayde vnto Abraham: what meane these .vij. lamdes which thou hast sett by them selues.

30 And he answered: vij. lambes shalt thou take of my hande that it maye be a wytnesse vnto me that I haue dygged this well:

31 Wherfore the place is called Berseba because they sware both of them.

32 Thus made they a bonde to gether at Berseba.Than Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe captayne rose vp and turned agayne vnto the lande of the Philistines.

33 And Abraham planted a wodd in Berseba and called there on the name of the LORde the everlastynge God:

Genesis 21:23-33 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.