These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 21
Tanakh 34 verses
- 1 And remembered as He had said, and did unto as He had spoken.
- 2 And conceived, and bore a son in his old age, at the set time of which had spoken to him.
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And called the of his son that was born unto him, whom bore to him, .
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And circumcised his son when he was eight days old, as had commanded him.
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And was a hundred years old, when his son was born unto him.
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- 6 And said: ‘ hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.’
- 7 And she said: ‘Who would have said unto , that should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.’
- 8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And made a great feast on the day that was weaned.
- 9 And saw the son of the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto , making sport.
- 10 Wherefore she said unto : ‘Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with .’
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And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
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And said unto : ‘Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in shall seed be called to thee.
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And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.’
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And arose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto , putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
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And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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- 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: ‘Let me not look upon the death of the child.’ And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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And heard the voice of the lad; and the of called to out of , and said unto her: ‘What aileth thee, ? not; for hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
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Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast by thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.’
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And opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
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- 20 And was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
- 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of .
- 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto , saying: ‘ is with thee in all that thou doest.
- 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son; but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.’
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And said: ‘I will swear.’
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- 25 And reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
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And Abimelech said: ‘I not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.’
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- 27 And took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a .
- 28 And set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.
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And Abimelech said unto : ‘What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?’
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And he said: ‘Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.’
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Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.
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So they made a at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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- 33 And planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the of , the Everlasting .
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And sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
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