Genesis

以撒出生

1耶和华按着先前的话眷顾撒拉，便照他所说的给撒拉成就。

2当亚伯拉罕年老的时候，撒拉怀了孕；到 神所说的日期，就给亚伯拉罕生了一个儿子。

3亚伯拉罕给撒拉所生的儿子起名叫以撒。

4以撒生下来第八日，亚伯拉罕照着 神所吩咐的，给以撒行了割礼。

5他儿子以撒生的时候，亚伯拉罕年一百岁。

6撒拉说：「 神使我喜笑，凡听见的必与我一同喜笑」；

7又说：「谁能预先对亚伯拉罕说『撒拉要乳养婴孩』呢？因为在他年老的时候，我给他生了一个儿子。」

8孩子渐长，就断了奶。以撒断奶的日子，亚伯拉罕设摆丰盛的筵席。

夏甲和以实玛利被逐

9当时，撒拉看见埃及人夏甲给亚伯拉罕所生的儿子戏笑，

10就对亚伯拉罕说：「你把这使女和她儿子赶出去！因为这使女的儿子不可与我的儿子以撒一同承受产业。」

11亚伯拉罕因他儿子的缘故很忧愁。

12神对亚伯拉罕说：「你不必为这童子和你的使女忧愁。凡撒拉对你说的话，你都该听从；因为从以撒生的，才要称为你的后裔。

13至于使女的儿子，我也必使他的后裔成立一国，因为他是你所生的。」

14亚伯拉罕清早起来，拿饼和一皮袋水，给了夏甲，搭在她的肩上，又把孩子交给她，打发她走。夏甲就走了，在别是巴的旷野走迷了路。

15皮袋的水用尽了，夏甲就把孩子撇在小树底下，

16自己走开约有一箭之远，相对而坐，说：「我不忍见孩子死」，就相对而坐，放声大哭。

17神听见童子的声音； 神的使者从天上呼叫夏甲说：「夏甲，你为何这样呢？不要害怕， 神已经听见童子的声音了。

18起来！把童子抱在怀中，我必使他的后裔成为大国。」

19神使夏甲的眼睛明亮，她就看见一口水井，便去将皮袋盛满了水，给童子喝。

20神保佑童子，他就渐长，住在旷野，成了弓箭手。

21他住在巴兰的旷野；他母亲从埃及地给他娶了一个妻子。

亚伯拉罕跟亚比米勒立约

22当那时候，亚比米勒同他军长非各对亚伯拉罕说：「凡你所行的事都有 神的保佑。

23我愿你如今在这里指着 神对我起誓，不要欺负我与我的儿子，并我的子孙。我怎样厚待了你，你也要照样厚待我与你所寄居这地的民。」

24亚伯拉罕说：「我情愿起誓。」

25从前，亚比米勒的仆人霸占了一口水井，亚伯拉罕为这事指责亚比米勒。

26亚比米勒说：「谁做这事，我不知道，你也没有告诉我，今日我才听见了。」

27亚伯拉罕把羊和牛给了亚比米勒，二人就彼此立约。

28亚伯拉罕把七只母羊羔另放在一处。

29亚比米勒问亚伯拉罕说：「你把这七只母羊羔另放在一处，是什么意思呢？」

30他说：「你要从我手里受这七只母羊羔，作我挖这口井的证据。」

31所以他给那地方起名叫别是巴，因为他们二人在那里起了誓。

32他们在别是巴立了约，亚比米勒就同他军长非各起身回非利士地去了。

33亚伯拉罕在别是巴栽上一棵垂丝柳树，又在那里求告耶和华—永生 神的名。

34亚伯拉罕在非利士人的地寄居了多日。

The Birth of Isaac

1Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

3And Abraham gave the name Isaacto the son Sarah bore to him.

4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

5Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

7She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

8So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Sarah Turns against Hagar

9But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

10and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

11Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

13But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

14Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

15When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

17Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.

18Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

21And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

The Covenant at Beersheba

22At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

23Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

24And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

25But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

26Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

27So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

29and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

30He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

31So that place was called Beersheba,because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

32After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

33And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

34And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.