The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. [21:18] Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
[21:19] God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. [21:20] God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. [21:21] He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
[21:22] It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do. [21:23] Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
[21:24] Abraham said, "I will swear." [21:25] Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. [21:26] Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
[21:27] Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. [21:28] Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. [21:29] Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
[21:30] He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." [21:31] Therefore he called that place [Beersheba,] because they both swore there. [21:32] So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. [21:33] Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. [21:34] Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
[22:1] It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
He said, "Here I am."
[22:2] He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
[22:3] Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. [22:4] On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. [22:5] Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you." [22:6] Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. [22:7] Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?"