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Book of Genesis, Chapter 21

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Genesis 21 NASB - New American Standard BibleGenesis 21 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 21 of Genesis—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had [a]promised.
  2. 2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at 3the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
  3. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, 4Isaac.
  4. Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was 5eight days old, as God had commanded him.
  5. Now Abraham was 6one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
  6. Sarah said, “God has made 7laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh [b]with me.”
  7. And she said, “8Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
  8. ¶ The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
  9. ¶ Now Sarah saw 9the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, [c]10mocking.
  10. Therefore she said to Abraham, “11Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son [d]Isaac.”
  11. 12The matter [e]distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.
  12. But God said to Abraham, “[f]Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for 13through Isaac [g]your descendants shall be named.
  13. And of 14the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your [h]descendant.”
  14. So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a [i]skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
  15. ¶ When the water in the skin was used up, she [j]left the boy under one of the bushes.
  16. Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me [k]see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and 15lifted up her voice and wept.
  17. God 16heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? 17Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
  18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by [l]the hand, 18for I will make a great nation of him.”
  19. Then God 19opened her eyes and she saw 20a well of water; and she went and filled the [m]skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
  20. 21God was with the lad, and he grew; and he [n]lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
  21. 22He [o]lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
  22. ¶ Now it came about at that time that 23Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “24God is with you in all that you do;
  23. now therefore, 25swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”
  24. Abraham said, “I swear it.”
  25. But Abraham [p]complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech 26had seized.
  26. And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it [q]until today.”
  27. ¶ Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and 27the two of them made a covenant.
  28. Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
  29. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”
  30. He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a 28witness to me, that I dug this well.”
  31. Therefore he called that place 29Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.
  32. So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
  33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there 30he called on the name of the LORD, the 31Everlasting God.
  34. And Abraham sojourned 32in the land of the Philistines for many days.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit spoken
  2. ^ Lit for
  3. ^ Or playing
  4. ^ Lit with Isaac
  5. ^ Lit was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
  6. ^ Lit Do not let it be grievous in your sight
  7. ^ Lit your seed will be called
  8. ^ Lit seed
  9. ^ I.e. a skin used as a bottle
  10. ^ Lit cast
  11. ^ Lit look upon the death of the child
  12. ^ Lit your
  13. ^ V 14, note 1
  14. ^ Lit dwelt
  15. ^ Lit dwelt
  16. ^ Lit reproved
  17. ^ Lit except

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 17:16, 21; 18:10, 14; Ga 4:23
  2. ^ Ac 7:8; Ga 4:22; Heb 11:11
  3. ^ Ge 17:21; 18:10, 14
  4. ^ Ge 17:19, 21
  5. ^ Ge 17:12; Ac 7:8
  6. ^ Ge 17:17
  7. ^ Ge 18:13; Ps 126:2; Is 54:1
  8. ^ Ge 18:11, 13
  9. ^ Ge 16:1, 4, 15
  10. ^ Ga 4:29
  11. ^ Ga 4:30
  12. ^ Ge 17:18
  13. ^ Ro 9:7; Heb 11:18
  14. ^ Ge 16:10; 21:18; 25:12-18
  15. ^ Je 6:26; Am 8:10
  16. ^ Ex 3:7; De 26:7; Ps 6:8
  17. ^ Ge 26:24
  18. ^ Ge 16:10; 21:13; 25:12-16
  19. ^ Nu 22:31; 2Ki 6:17
  20. ^ Ge 16:7, 14
  21. ^ Ge 28:15; 39:2, 3, 21
  22. ^ Ge 25:18
  23. ^ Ge 20:2, 14; 26:26
  24. ^ Ge 26:28; Is 8:10
  25. ^ Jos 2:12; 1Sa 24:21
  26. ^ Ge 26:15, 18, 20-22
  27. ^ Ge 26:31
  28. ^ Ge 31:48
  29. ^ Ge 21:14; 26:33
  30. ^ Ge 12:8
  31. ^ Ex 15:18; De 32:40; Ps 90:2; 93:2; Is 40:28; Je 10:10; Hab 1:12; Heb 13:8
  32. ^ Ge 22:19

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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