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I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I and remember thou wast taken.
suffered thee not to touch her. 17 And when Abraham prayed, God healed
7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, for Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and
he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and they bore children:
thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, 18 For the Lord had closed up every womb
know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara,
that are thine. Abraham’s wife.
8 And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the
night, called all his servants: and spoke all these
words in their hearing, and all the men were ex- Chapter 21
ceedingly afraid.
And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised:
9 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and
and fulfilled what he had spoken.
said to him: What hast thou done to us? what
2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old
have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought
age, at the time that God had foretold her.
upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin?
3 And Abraham called the name of his son,
thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not
to do. whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
10 And again he expostulated with him, and 4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as
said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done God had commanded him,
this? 5 When he was a hundred years old: for at
11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, this age of his father, was Isaac born.
saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in 6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter
this place: and they will kill me for the sake of for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with
my wife: me.
12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my 7 And again she said: Who would believe that
sister, the daughter of my father, and not the Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a
daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
13 And after God brought me out of my fa- 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and
ther’s house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me Abraham made a great feast on the day of his
this kindness: In every place, to which we shall weaning.
come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother. 9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar,
14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she
servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: said to Abraham:
and restored to him Sara his wife, 10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for
15 And said: The land is before you, dwell the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with
wheresoever it shall please thee. my son Isaac.
16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have given 11 Abraham took this grievously for his son.
thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall 12 And God said to him: Let it not seem
serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bond-
are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: woman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hear-