Genesis 21:1-16 ▼

1 Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.

2 For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.

3 And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.

4 Then Abraha circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God had commanded him.

5 So Abraham was an hundreth yeere olde, when his sonne Izhak was borne vnto him.

6 Then Sarah said, God hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me.

7 Againe she said, Who would haue saide to Abraham, that Sarah shoulde haue giuen children sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age.

8 Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was weaned.

9 And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking.

10 Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.

11 And this thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

12 But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.

13 As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.

14 So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the childe also, and sent her away: who departing wandred in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.

15 And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.

16 Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will not see the death of the child; she sate downe ouer against him, and lift vp her voyce and wept.