창세기(Genesis) 21장

창세기(Genesis) 21장

1. Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah
as he had said, and the LORD did for
Sarah what he had promised.

2. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son
to Abraham in his old age, at the very
time God had promised him.

3. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the
son Sarah bore him.

4. When his son Isaac was eight days
old, Abraham circumcised him, as
God 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, and everyone who hears
about this will laugh with me.”

7. And she added, “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. But Sarah saw that the son whom
Hagar the Egyptian had borne to
Abraham was mocking,

10. and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of
that slave woman and her son, for that
slave woman’s son will never share in
the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

11. The matter distressed Abraham
greatly because it concerned his
son.

12. But God said to him, “Do not be so
distressed about the boy and your
maidservant. 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 maidservant
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
nearby, about a bowshot away, for
she thought, “I cannot watch the boy
die,” And as she sat there nearby,
she began to sob.

17. God heard the boy crying, and the
angel of God called to Hagar from
heaven and said to her, “What is the
matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God
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 God 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. God 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.

22. At that time Abimelech and Phicol
the commander of his forces said to
Abraham, “God is with you in
everything you do.

23. Now swear to me here before God
that you will not deal falsely with me
or my children or my descendants.
Show to me and the country where
you are living as an alien the same
kindness I have shown to 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. But Abimelech 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 Abimelech,
and the two men made a treaty.

28. Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs
from the flock,

29. and Abimelech 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, Abimelech 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 upon
the name of the LORD, the Eternal
God.

34. And Abraham stayed in the land of
the Philistines for a long time.