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Book of Genesis 25

ken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be 24 And Abraham said: I will swear.
called. 25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of
13 But I will make the son also of the bond- water, which his servants had taken away by
woman a great nation, because he is thy seed. force.
14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and 26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who
taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I
her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her heard not of it till today.
away. And she departed, and wandered in the 27 Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
wilderness of Bersabee. gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made
15 And when the water in the bottle was a league.
spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees 28 And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of
that were there. the flock.
16 And she went her way, and sat overagainst 29 And Abimelech said to him: What mean
him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?
she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting 30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe-
overagainst, she lifted up her voice and wept. lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony
17 And God heard the voice of the boy: and for me, that I dug this well.
an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, say- 31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee;
ing: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for because there both of them did swear.
God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the 32 And they made a league for the well of
place wherein he is. oath.
18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by 33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general
the hand, for I will make him a great nation.
of his army, arose and returned to the land of
19 And God opened her eyes: and she saw a
the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in
well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and
Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the
gave the boy to drink.
Lord God eternal.
20 And God was with him: and he grew, and
34 And he was a sojourner in the land of the
dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young
Palestines many days.
man, an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan,
and his mother took a wife for him out of the Chapter 22
land of Egypt.
22 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol After these things, God tempted Abraham, and
the general of his army, said to Abraham: God said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he an-
is with thee in all that thou dost. swered: Here I am.
23 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not 2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son
hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but ac- Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land
cording to the kindness that I have done to thee, of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an
thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will
thou hast lived a stranger. shew thee.