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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 21 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Genesis 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/20.htm" title="Genesis 20">◄</a> Genesis 21 <a href="../genesis/22.htm" title="Genesis 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>AND the LORD remembered Sarah, as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And Sarah said, God has made me to rejoice today exceedingly; everyone that hears the news will rejoice with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would give suck to children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And the child grew and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore she said to Abraham, Expel this maidservant and her son; for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice; for your descendants shall come through Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And also of the son of the maidservant will I make a great nation because he is your offspring. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin containing water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the boy; and sent her away. And she departed, and lost her way in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And she went and sat down opposite him about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And the LORD heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Arise, take up the boy, and hold him fast in your arms; for I will make him a great nation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>And God was with the boy; and he grew up and dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and learned to become an archer in the wilderness of Paran. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>And it came to pass at that time that Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of his army, said to Abraham, God is with you in all that you do; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Now therefore swear to me by God in this place that you will never deal falsely with me, nor with my family, nor with my descendants; but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me and to the land wherein you have sojourned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And Abraham said, I will swear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And Abraham reproved Abimeleck because of a well which Abraham's servants had dug and which Abimeleck's servants had seized. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And Abimeleck said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it until today.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimeleck; and both of them made a covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abimeleck said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs of the flock which you have set by themselves? <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take of my hands that they may be a witness for me that I have digged this well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they swore both of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; then Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of the army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba and called there on the name of the LORD Everlasting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/21-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for a long time.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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