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The Birth of Isaac
1 Anu visited Sarah as he had said, and did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time when Anu had spoken to him.
3 Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as Anu had commanded him.
5 Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 Anu has brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.
7 Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.
8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.
9 Sarah saw Ishmael [the son of Hagar the Egyptian] mocking.
10 So she said to Abraham:
11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.
12 Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman.
Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.
14 Early the next morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.
He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought:
She cried as she sat there.
17 Anu heard the boy crying. The agent of Anu called to Hagar from heaven and said to her:
What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid. Anu has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
19 Then Anu opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 Anu was with the boy as he grew up.
He lived in the desert and became an archer.
21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
The Treaty at Beersheba
22 At that time, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham:
Anu is with you in everything you do. 23 Swear to me here before Anu that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.
Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized. 26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty. 28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock.
29 Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”
31 So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
32 After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on Anu.
34 Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
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