[20:1] Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. [20:2] Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. [20:3] But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
[20:4] Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? [20:5] Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
[20:6] God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her. [20:7] Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
[20:8] Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. [20:9] Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" [20:10] Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
[20:11] Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.' [20:12] Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. [20:13] It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
[20:14] Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. [20:15] Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you." [20:16] To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."
[20:17] Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. [20:18] For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
[21:1] Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. [21:2] Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. [21:3] Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, [Isaac.] [21:4] Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. [21:5] Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. [21:6] Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." [21:7] She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
[21:8] The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. [21:9] Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. [21:10] Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
[21:11] The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. [21:12] God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called. [21:13] I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed." [21:14] Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. [21:15] The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. [21:16] She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. [21:17] God heard the voice of the boy.