1Yahweh showed favor to Sarah, just as he had promised, and Yahweh did for Sarah what he had said.
2Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, exactly at the time God had told him.
3Abraham named his son, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
7Sarah said, "Who would have told Abraham that I, Sarah, would nurse children? For I have given him a son in his old age."
8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham hosted a big party on the day Isaac was weaned.
9Sarah saw Ishmael, the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom Hagar had given to Abraham, making fun of Isaac.
10So she told Abraham, "Send away this servant and her son! The son of this servant will not inherit along with my son, Isaac."
11This suggestion made Abraham very upset because it concerned his son.
12But God said to Abraham, "Don't be upset about the boy and your servant. Listen to everything Sarah tells you, because your descendants will be traced through Isaac.
13I will also make the servant's son into a nation, because he is your child."
14So Abraham got up early in the morning, took some bread and a waterskin, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them on her shoulder, sent her away with the child, and she left. She wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15When the water in the waterskin ran out, she left the child under one of the bushes.
16She went and sat down a good distance away, about an arrow's shot, because she said to herself, "I can't watch my child die." As she sat facing him, she began to cry loudly.
17God heard the boy crying. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, "What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the boy crying right where he is.
18Get up, pick up the boy, and hold him tightly. I will make him into a great nation."
19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the waterskin, and gave the boy a drink.
20God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became a skilled archer.
21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
23Now, swear to me by God right here that you will not deceive me, my son, or my grandson. Instead, treat me and the land where you have lived as a foreigner with the same kindness I have shown you."
24Abraham said, "I will swear it."
25Abraham then complained to Abimelech about a water well that Abimelech's servants had violently taken.
26Abimelech said, "I don't know who did this. You never told me, and I didn't hear about it until today."
27Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made an agreement.
28Abraham set seven female lambs from the flock aside by themselves.
29Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven female lambs you have set aside?"
30Abraham replied, "You must accept these seven female lambs from me as proof that I dug this well."
31So he named that place Beersheba, because both of them swore an oath there.
32After they made a covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and prayed there to Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for a long time.