Genesis 21

va-Adonai paqad et-sarah ka'asher amar vayya'as Adonai lesarah ka'asher dibber

GOD took note of Sarah just as promised, and GOD did for Sarah what had been announced.

vattahar vatteled sarah le'avraham ben lizqunayw lammo'ed asher-dibber oto elohim

Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken.

vayyiqra avraham et-shem-beno hannolad-lo asher-yaledah-llo sarah yitskhaq

Abraham gave his newborn son, whom Sarah had borne him, the name of Isaac.

vayyamol avraham et-yitskhaq beno ben-shemonat yamim ka'asher tsivvah oto elohim

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

ve'avraham ben-me'at shanah behivvaled lo et yitskhaq beno

Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

vattomer sarah tsekhoq asah li elohim kol-hashomea yitskhaq-li

Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

vattomer mi millel le'avraham heniqah vanim sarah ki-yaladti ven lizqunayw

And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham That Sarah would suckle children! Yet I have borne a son in his old age.”

vayyigdal hayyeled vayyiggamal vayya'as avraham mishteh gadol beyom higgamel et-yitskhaq

The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

vattere sarah et-ben-hagar hammitsrit asher-yaledah le'avraham metsakheq

Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing.

vattomer le'avraham garesh ha'amah hazzot ve'et-benah ki lo yirash ben-ha'amah hazzot im-beni im-yitskhaq

She said to Abraham, “Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

vayyera haddavar me'od be'ene avraham al odot beno

The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his.

vayyomer elohim el-avraham al-yera be'enekha al-hanna'ar ve'al-amatekha kol asher tomar elekha sarah shema beqolah ki veyitskhaq yiqqare lekha zara

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be continued for you.

vegam et-ben-ha'amah legoy asimennu ki zarakha hu

As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed.”

vayyashkem avraham babboqer vayyiqqakh-lekhem vekhemat mayim vayyitten el-hagar sam al-shikhmah ve'et-hayyeled vayeshallekheha vattelekh vatteta bemidbar be'er shava

Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

vayyikhlu hammayim min-hakhemet vattashlekh et-hayyeled takhat akhad hassikhim

When the water was gone from the skin, she left the child under one of the bushes,

vattelekh vatteshev lah minneged harkheq kimtakhave qeshet ki amerah al-ereh bemot hayyaled vatteshev minneged vattissa et-qolah vattevk

and went and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, “Let me not look on as the child dies.” And sitting thus afar, she burst into tears.

vayyishma elohim et-qol hanna'ar vayyiqra malakh elohim el-hagar min-hashamayim vayyomer lah mah-llakh hagar al-tire'i ki-shama elohim el-qol hanna'ar ba'asher hu-sham

God heard the cry of the boy, and an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heeded the cry of the boy where he is.

qumi se'i et-hanna'ar vehakhaziqi et-yadekh bo ki-legoy gadol asimennu

Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

vayyifqakh elohim et-eneha vattere be'er mayim vattelekh vattemalle et-hakhemet mayim vattashq et-hanna'ar

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink.

vayehi elohim et-hanna'ar vayyigdal vayyeshev bammidbar vayehi roveh qashat

God was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became skilled with a bow.

vayyeshev bemidbar paran vattiqqakh-lo immo isha me'erets mitsrayim

He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

vayehi ba'et hahiv vayyomer avimelekh ufikhol sar-tseva'o el-avraham lemor elohim immekha bekhol asher-attah oseh

At that time Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything that you do.

ve'attah hishave'ah li velohim hennah im-tishqor li ulenini ulenekhdi kakhesed asher-asiti immekha ta'aseh immadi ve'im-ha'arets asher-gartah bah

Therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my kith and kin, but will deal with me and with the land in which you have sojourned as loyally as I have dealt with you.”

vayyomer avraham anokhi ishavea

And Abraham said, “I swear it.”

vehokhiakh avraham et-avimelekh al-odot be'er hammayim asher gazelu avde avimelekh

Then Abraham reproached Abimelech for the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

vayyomer avimelekh lo yadati mi asah et-haddavar hazzeh vegam-attah lo-higgadta li vegam anokhi lo shamati bilti hayyom

But Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this; you did not tell me, nor have I heard of it until today.”

vayyiqqakh avraham tson uvaqar vayyitten la'avimelekh vayyikhretu shenehem berit

Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a pact.

vayyatsev avraham et-sheva kivsot hatson levaddehen

Abraham then set seven ewes of the flock by themselves,

vayyomer avimelekh el-avraham mah hennah sheva kevasot ha'elleh asher hitsavta levaddanah

and Abimelech said to Abraham, “What mean these seven ewes that you have set apart?”

vayyomer ki et-sheva kevasot tiqqakh miyyadi ba'avur tihyeh-lli le'edah ki khafarti et-habbe'er hazzot

He replied, “You are to accept these seven ewes from me as proof that I dug this well.”

al-ken qara lammaqom hahu be'er shava ki sham nishbe'u shenehem

Hence that place was called Beer-sheba, for there the two of them swore an oath.

vayyikhretu verit biver shava vayyaqom avimelekh ufikhol sar-tseva'o vayyashuvu el-erets pelishtim

When they had concluded the pact at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, departed and returned to the land of the Philistines.

vayyitta eshel biver shava vayyiqra-sham beshem Adonai el olam

[Abraham] planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and invoked there the name of the ETERNAL, the Everlasting God.

vayyagor avraham be'erets pelishtim yamim rabbim

And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines a long time.