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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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 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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And 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="/genesis/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-4.htm"><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="/genesis/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Sarah said: ‘God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she said: ‘Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-8.htm"><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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Wherefore she said unto Abraham: ‘Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And God said unto Abraham: ‘Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Abraham arose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: ‘Let me not look upon the death of the child.’ And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her: ‘What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast by thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: ‘God is with thee in all that thou doest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son; but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Abraham said: ‘I will swear.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Abimelech said: ‘I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Abimelech said unto Abraham: ‘What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he said: ‘Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>