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And Yahuah visited Sarah according to what He had said, and Yahuah did for Sarah according to what He had spoken.
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And Sarah conceived and brought forth a son to Avraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
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And Avraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah brought forth to him, Yitzchaq.
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And Avraham circumcised Yitzchaq his son when he was eight days old, according to what Elohim had commanded him.
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And Avraham was one hundred years old when Yitzchaq his son was born to him.
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And Sarah said, “Elohim has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
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And she said, “Who would have spoken to Avraham, saying, ‘Sarah shall nurse sons’? Yet I have brought forth a son in his old age.”
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And the child grew and was weaned. And Avraham made a great feast on the day Yitzchaq was weaned.
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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Mitzrit, whom she had brought forth to Avraham, laughing.
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And she said to Avraham, “Drive out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitzchaq.”
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And the matter was exceedingly grievous in the eyes of Avraham because of his son.
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And Elohim said to Avraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your eyes because of the young man and because of your maidservant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for through Yitzchaq your seed shall be called.
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And also the son of the maidservant I will make into a nation, because he is your seed.”
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And Avraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, placing them upon her shoulder, and the child also, and sent her away. And she went and wandered in the wilderness of Be’er-Sheva.
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And the water in the skin was finished, and she cast the child beneath one of the shrubs.
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And she went and sat herself opposite him, at a distance about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.
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And Elohim heard the voice of the young man. And the messenger of Elohim called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the young man where he is.
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Rise. Lift the young man and strengthen your hand upon him, for I will make him into a great nation.”
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And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the young man drink.
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And Elohim was with the young man, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took for him an ishah from the land of Mitzrayim.
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And it came to pass at that time that Avimelekh and Pikhol, commander of his army, spoke to Avraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.
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And now swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me, or with my son, or with my descendant. According to the covenant-faithfulness that I have shown you, so shall you do with me and with the land in which you have sojourned.”
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And Avraham said, “I will swear.”
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And Avraham reproved Avimelekh concerning a well of water that the servants of Avimelekh had seized.
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And Avimelekh said, “I do not know who did this thing. And you did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today.”
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And Avraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Avimelekh, and the two of them cut a covenant.
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And Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
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And Avimelekh said to Avraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves?”
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And he said, “For you shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
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Therefore he called that place Be’er-Sheva, because there the two of them swore an oath.
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And they cut a covenant at Be’er-Sheva. And Avimelekh rose, and Pikhol commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Pelishtim.
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And Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be’er-Sheva, and there he called upon the name of Yahuah, El Olam.
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And Avraham sojourned in the land of the Pelishtim many days.