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And Sara the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Agar. ² And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing; go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara. ³ So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him. ⁴ And he went in to Agar, and she conceived, and saw then she was with child, and her mistress was dishonored before her. ⁵ And Sara said to Abram I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee. ⁶ And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sara afflicted her, and she fled from her face.
⁷ And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Sur. ⁸ And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, Sara's maid, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou?" And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara. ⁹ And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to

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thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. ¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shall call his name Ismael, for the Lord hath hearkened to thy humiliation. ¹² He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." ¹³ And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, Thou art God who seest me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me. ¹⁴ Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad. ¹⁵ And Agar bore a son to Abram, and Abram called the name of his son which Agar bore to him Ismael. ¹⁶ And Abram was eighty-six years old when Agar bore Ismael to Abram.

And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless. ² And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. ³ And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying, ⁴ And I, behold! My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵ And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, ¹ for I have made thee a father of many nations. ⁶ And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷ And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God. ⁹ And God said to Abraam, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations. ¹⁰ And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you. ¹² And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed. ¹³ He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant. ¹⁵ And God said to Abraam, Sara thy wife--her name shall not be called Sara, Sarrha shall be her name. ¹⁶ And I will bless her,

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and give thee a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him. ¹⁷ And Abraam fell upon his face, and laughed; and spoke in his heart, saying, Shall there be a child to one who is a hunded years old, and shall Sarrha, who is ninety years old, bear? ¹⁸ And Abraam said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. ¹⁹And God said to Abraam, Yea, behold, Sarrha thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him. ²⁰ And concerning Ismael, behold, I have heard thee, and, behold, I have blessed him, and will increase him and multiply him exceedingly; twelve nations shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹ But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarrha shall bear to thee at this time in the next year. ²² And be left off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraam.
²³ And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him. ²⁴ And Abraam was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵ And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶And at the period of that day, Abraam was circumcised, and Ismael his son, ²⁷ and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.