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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 21 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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><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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Birth of Isaac</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> did for Sarah as he had promised. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Now Sarah said, “God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>And she said, “Who would ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-523a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Abraham and Abimelech Make a Covenant</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>At that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have resided as an alien.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And Abraham said, “I swear it.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>He said, “These seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand, in order that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-545b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> because there both of them swore an oath. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>When they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Abraham<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-547c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the Everlasting God.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-547d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>And Abraham resided as an alien many days in the land of the Philistines.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 21:9">Genesis 21:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Vg: Heb lacks <i>with her son Isaac</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 21:31">Genesis 21:31</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Well of seven</i> or <i>Well of the oath</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 21:33">Genesis 21:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>He</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 21:33">Genesis 21:33</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, El Olam</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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