# Genesis 21

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did for Sarah what he had promised.
2. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time God had spoken of to him.
3. Abraham named his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4. Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6. Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
7. And she said, “Who would have told 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. But Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham laughing.
10. So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not share the inheritance with my son, with Isaac.”
11. The matter was very distressing to Abraham because of his son.
12. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, for it is through Isaac that your offspring will be named.
13. I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, because he is your offspring.”
14. Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulder, gave her the child, and sent her away. She went off and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the child under one of the bushes.
16. Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.
17. God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying where he is.
18. Get up, lift the boy up, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19. 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.
20. God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21. He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22. At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
23. So now swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my children or my descendants. Show me and the land where you have been living as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown you.”
24. Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25. Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
26. Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I did not hear of it until today.”
27. So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
28. Abraham set seven ewe lambs from the flock apart by themselves,
29. and Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30. He said, “Accept these seven ewe lambs from my hand as a witness for me that I dug this well.”
31. That is why that place was called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
32. So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
34. And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/20.md)
[Genesis 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/22.md)

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