Sarai said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from bearing children. Please lie with my maid, lest I have children because of her. " Abram listened to Sarai.
16:3 So Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, the Egyptian maid, to her husband as a concubine. Abram has lived in Canaan for ten years.
Abram lay with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.
Sarai said to Abram, "I have been wronged for you. I put my maid in your arms. She despised me when she saw that she was pregnant. May the Lord judge between you and me. "
Abram said to Sarai, "Your handmaid is in your hand. Do to her as you please." Sarai treated her badly. She ran away from Sarai.
16:7 the angel of the Lord met her by the spring on Shur road in the wilderness.
16:8 asked her, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where are you from?" Where are you going? " Hagar said, "I escaped from my mistress Sarai."
And the angel of the Lord said to her, Go back to your mistress and submit to her.
And he said, I will multiply your descendants beyond number.
16: 1 1 He added, "Now you are pregnant and will give birth to a son. You can name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your sufferings (Ishmael means" God has heard ").
He must be like a wild donkey. His hand will fight against man, and man's hand will fight against him. He will live to the east of all his brothers. "
16: 13 Hagar called the Lord who spoke to her "the God who cares for people". So he said, "Do I see the man who takes care of me here?"
16: 14 So the name of this well is Pierre Lahailai. This well is between Kadesh and the valley.
Later, Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael.
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "I am God Almighty, and you must be perfect before me.
17:2 I will make a covenant with you and multiply your descendants. "
Abram fell on his face; God said to him again:
17:4 "I will make a Covenant with you, and you will be the father of many countries.
17:5 From now on, your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of many nations.
17:6 I will multiply your descendants, and a kingdom will come out of you, and a king will come out of you.
17:7 I will establish my Covenant with you and your descendants from generation to generation, and I will be your God and your descendants' God for ever.
17:8 I will give you and your descendants the land where you live now, all the land of Canaan, for an inheritance forever. I will also be their god. "
God also said to Abraham, "You and your descendants will keep my covenant from generation to generation.
All your men are to be circumcised. This is my agreement with you and your descendants, and you should keep it.
You are all to be circumcised. 14, 23, 24, 25), this is the evidence of my contract with you.
17: 12 All your generations of men, whether born at home or bought with money from outsiders other than your descendants, will be circumcised on the eighth day after birth.
All those born in your family and those you bought with money are to be circumcised. In this way, my Covenant will stand on you and become an eternal Covenant.
But the uncircumcised man will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my Covenant. "
God also said to Abraham, "Your wife Sarai will no longer be called Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
I will bless her and let her have a son for you. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of many nations, and the kings of the peoples will come out of her. "
Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, "Can a man who is a hundred years old still have children? Sarah is ninety years old. Can she still have children? "
Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael would live before you."
God said, "No, your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him and make an everlasting covenant for his descendants.
17:20 as for Ishmael, I will also answer you, and I will bless him and make him prosperous and multiply. He will have twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
At this time next year, Sarah will bear you Isaac, and I will establish my Covenant with him. "
17:22 When God had finished talking with Abraham, he left him and went up.
17:23 On that very day, Abraham circumcised Ishmael, his son, and all the men in his family, whether born at home or bought with money, according to God's command.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised.
His son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
On that very day, Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised together.
17:27 All the people in the family, whether born at home or bought from outsiders with money, were circumcised together.
The Lord visited Sarah as he said, and did it for Sarah as he said.
2 1:2 When Abraham was old, Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son to Abraham on the date God had said.
2 1:3 Abraham named Sarah's son Isaac.
2 1:4 On the eighth day after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him.
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.
2 1:6 Sarah said, "God makes me laugh, and everyone who hears it will laugh with me."
2 1:7 and he said, "Who could have told Abraham beforehand that Sarah would breast-feed the baby?" ? Because when he was old, I gave him a son. "
2 1:8 When a child grows up, he is weaned. On the day when Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a great feast.
2 1:9 At that time, Sarah saw the son of Hagar, an Egyptian born to Abraham, laughing.
And he said to Abraham, "Put this handmaid and her son out! For the son of this bondwoman shall not inherit with my son Isaac. "
Abraham was very sad because of his son.
1:12 God said to Abraham, "You don't have to worry about the boy and your maidservant, but just listen to everything Sarah says to you, because in Isaac you will be called your seed.
As for the son of your handmaid, I will also make his descendants into a nation, for he was born to you. "
2 1: 14 Abraham got up early in the morning, took a cake and a skin of water, gave it to Hagar, put it on her shoulder, gave her the child and sent her away. Hagar went away and got lost in the wilderness of Beersheba.
2 1: 15 When the water in the leather bag was used up, Hagar left the child under the small tree.
2 1: 16 I walked away about a stone's throw and sat opposite and said, "I can't bear to watch my child die!" "Just sitting opposite, crying loudly.
God heard the boy's voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said, "Hagar! Why are you doing this? Don't be afraid. God heard the boy's voice.
2 1: 18 get up! Hold this child in your arms, and I will make his descendants a great nation. "
2 1: 19 God made Hagar's eyes bright. When she saw a well, she went to fill the leather bag with water and gave it to the boy to drink.
2 1:20 God blessed the boy, and he grew up in the wilderness, lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
2 1:2 1 He lives in the wilderness of Balaam and his mother married him from Egypt.
Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
Keturah bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbar and Shuah.
Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan: Ashurites, Litullites and Reummites.
The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Ida. These are the sons of Kitura.
Abraham gave everything he had to Isaac.
Abraham gave the inheritance to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive, he sent them away from his son Isaac and went to the east.
The years of Abraham's life were one hundred and seventy-five.
Abraham gave up the ghost of a long life, died and was gathered to his people.
His two sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah. This cave is in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite before Mamre.
25: 10 is the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.
After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Sack lives near Bilhallalai.
The son of Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, born to Abraham was Ishmael.
25: 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael according to their genealogy: Nebaioth, the eldest son of Ishmael, Kedar, Adebel and Mibishan,
25: 14 Mishma, Duma, Martha,
25: 15 Hada, Mati, Itu, Nafeixi and Ji Ma.
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, heads of twelve families according to their villages and strongholds.
When Ishmael lived to be 137 years old, he gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered to his people.
His descendants lived in the east of all his brothers, from Havilah to Shur, which is in front of Egypt, on the way to Assyria.