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Ch. XXI. therefore all things hereafter accord with truth. Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimeleh and his wife and his maid servants and they bore children. For the Lord had shut up every womb in Abimelech's family on the account of Sarah the wife of Abraham.

Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken, and she conceived and bare a son to Abraham in old age at the set time, of which the Lord had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaak. And Abraham circumcised Isaak on the eighth day, as God had commanded him. Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaak was born to him. And Sarah said, The Lor hat made laughter for me; for whoever shall hear will rejoice with me. And she said, Who will tell Abraham that Sarah is suckling a child - that I have born a son in my old age! And the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great entertainment on the day his son Isaak was weaned. And when Sarah saw the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham sport with her son Isaak, she said to Abraham, Send away this girl and her son; for the son of this girl shall not be heir with my son Isaak. And the thing appeared very hard in Abraham's view, touching his son. But God said to Abraham, Let nothis respecting thy son and respecting the handmaid appear hard in thy view. Hearken to the voice of Sarah in whatever she may have said to thee. For in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee. Nevertheless I will make the son of this handmaid a great nation, because he is thy seed. So Abraham arose early the next morning and took loaves and a skin full of water, and when he had put them on her shoulder he gave the boy to Agar and sent her away. And she departing lost her way between the wilderness and Well of the Oath; And the water int he skin being spent she laid the boy under the first pine tree and going away sat down over agasint him at the distance of about a bow shot. For she said, I cannot behold the death of my son. So she sat over against him and the lad wept with a loud voice. And God heard the voice of the lad from the place where he was. And an angel of God called to Agar out of heaven and said, What is the matter, Agar? Fear not: