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[21:17] And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. [21:18] Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation. [21:19] And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. [21:20] And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. [21:21] And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. [21:22] And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: [21:23] now therefore swear unto me here by God 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. [21:24] And Abraham said, I will swear. [21:25] And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. [21:26] And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. [21:27] And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant. [21:28] And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. [21:29] And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? [21:30] And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. [21:31] Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. [21:32] So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. [21:33] And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. [21:34] And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. [22:1] And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. [22:2] And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. [22:3] And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. [22:4] On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.