القراءة بلغتين

وٱفتَقَدَ الرَّبُّ سارةَ كما قال، وصَنَعَ الرَّبُّ إِلى سارةَ كما قال

فحَمَلَت سارةُ ووَلَدَت لإِبْراهيمَ ٱبنًا في شَيخوخَتِه في الوَقتِ الَّذي وَعَدَ اللهُ بِه

فسَمَّى إِبْراهيمُ ٱبنَه المَولودَ له، الَّذي وَلَدَتَه لَه سارة، إِسحٰق

وخَتَنَ إِبْراهيمُ إِسحٰقَ ٱبنَه، وهو ٱبنُ ثَمانِيَةِ أَيَّامِ، بِحَسَبِ ما أَمَرَه اللهُ بِه

وكانَ إِبْراهيمُ ٱبنَ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ حينَ وُلِدَ لَه إِسحٰقُ ٱبنُه

وقالَت سارة: «جَعَلَ اللهُ لي ما يُضحِك، فكُلُّ مَن سَمِعَ بِذٰلك يَضحَكُ بِشَأني»

وقالت: «من كانَ يَقولُ لإِبراهيم: إِنَّ سارةَ سَتُرضِعُ البَنين! فقَد وَلَدتُ ٱبنًا لِشَيخوخَتِه»

وكَبِرَ الوَلَدُ وفُطِم، وأَقامَ إِبْراهيمُ مَأدُبةً عَظيمةً في يَومِ فِطامِ إِسحٰق

ورَأَت سارةُ ٱبنَ هاجَرَ المِصرِيَّةِ الَّذي وَلَدَتَه لإِبْراهيمَ يَلعَبُ مع ٱبنِها إِسحٰق

فقالَت لإِبْراهيم: «أُطْرُدْ هٰذه الخادِمةَ وٱبنَها، فإِنَّ ٱبنَ هٰذه الجارِيَةِ لَن يَرِثَ مع ٱبْني إِسحٰق»

فساءَ هٰذا الكَلامُ جِدًّا في عَينَي إِبْراهيمَ بِشَأْنِ ٱبنِه

فقالَ اللهُ لإِبْراهيم: «لا يَسُؤْ في عَينَيكَ أَمْرُ الصَّبِيِّ وأَمْرُ خادِمَتِكَ. مَهْما قالَت لَك سارة، فٱسْمَعْ لِقَولِها، لِأَنَّه بِإِسحٰقَ يَكونُ لَكَ نَسْلٌ بِٱسمِكَ

وأَمَّا ٱبنُ الخادِمَة، فهو أَيضًا أَجعَلُه أُمَّةً عظيمةً، لِأَنَّه نَسلُكَ»

فبَكَّرَ إِبْراهيمُ في الصَّباحِ وأَخَذَ خُبزًا وقِربَةَ ماء فأَعطاهُما هاجرَ وجَعَلَ الوَلَدَ على كَتِفِها، وصَرَفَها. فمَضَت وتاهَت في بَرِّيَّةِ بِئرِ سَبْع

ونَفِدَ الماءُ مِنَ القِربَة، فطَرَحَتِ الوَلَدَ تَحتَ بَعضِ الشِّيح

ومَضَت فجَلَسَت تُجاهَه على بُعدِ رَميَةِ قَوس، لِأَنَّها قالَت: «لا رَأَيتُ مَوتَ الوَلَد!». فجَلَسَت تُجاهَه، ورَفَعَت صَوتَها وَبَكَت

وسَمِعَ اللهُ صَوتَ الصَّبِيِّ، فنادى مَلاكُ الرَّبَّ هاجَرَ مِنَ السَّماءِ وقالَ لها: «ما لَكِ يا هاجَر؟ لا تخافي، فإِنَّ اللهَ قد سَمِعَ صَوتَ الصَّبِيِّ حَيثُ هو

قومي فخُذي الصَّبِيَّ وشُدِّي علَيه يَدَكِ، فإِنِّي جاعِلُه أُمَّةً عظيمة»

وفَتَحَ اللهُ عَينَيها فَرأَت بِئرَ ماءٍ، فمَضَت ومَلأَتِ القِرْبَةَ ماءً وسَقَتِ الصَّبِيّ

وكانَ اللهُ معَ الصَّبِيِّ حتَّى كَبِرَ فأَقامَ بِالبَرِّيَّةِ وكانَ رامِيًا بِالقَوس

وأَقامَ بِبَرِّيَّةِ فاران، وٱتَّخَذَت لَه أُمُّه ٱمرَأَةً مِن أَرضِ مِصْر

وكانَ في ذٰلك الزَّمانِ أَنَّ أَبيمَلِكَ وفِيكولَ، قائِدَ جَيشِه، كَلَّما إِبْراهيمَ قائِلَين: «إِنَّ اللهَ معَكَ في جميعِ ما تَعمَلُه

والآنَ ٱحلِفْ لي بِاللهِ هٰهُنا أَنَّكَ لا تَخدَعُني ولا تَخدَعُ ذُرِّيَّتي وخَلَفي، بل تُعامِلُني وتُعامِلُ البَلَدَ الَّذي نَزَلتَ به بِالرَّحمةِ الَّتي عامَلتُكَ بِها»

فقالَ إِبْراهيم: «أَحْلِف»

وعاتَبَ إِبْراهيمُ أَبيمَلِكَ بِسَبَبِ بِئْرِ الماءِ الَّتي غَصَبَها خَدَمُ أَبيمَلِك

فقالَ أَبيمَلِك: «لم أَعلَمْ مَن فَعَلَ هٰذا الأَمْر، وأَنتَ لم تُخْبِرْني، ولا أَنا سَمِعتُ إِلَّا اليَوم»

وأَخَذَ إِبْراهيمُ غَنَمًا وبَقَرًا فأَعْطاها أَبيمَلِك وقَطَعا كِلاهُما عَهدًا

ووَضَعَ إِبْراهيمُ سَبْعَ نِعاجٍ مِنَ الغَنَمِ على حِدَة

فَقالَ أَبيمَلِكُ لإِبْراهيم: «ما هٰذهِ النِّعاجُ السَّبعُ الَّتي وَضَعتَها على حِدَة؟»

قال: «سَبعَ نِعاجٍ تأخُذُ مِن يَدي لِتَكونَ شهادةً لي بِأَنِّي حَفَرتُ هٰذه البِئْر»

ولِذٰلك سُمِّيَ ذٰلك المكانُ بِئْرَ سَبْعَ، لِأَنَّهما هُناكَ حَلَفا كِلاهُما

وقَطَعا عَهْدًا في بِئْرِ سَبْع، وقامَ أَبيمَلِكُ وفيكولُ، قائِدُ جَيشِه، ورَجَعا إِلى أَرضِ الفَلِسْطينِيِّين

وغَرَسَ إِبْراهيمُ طَرْفاءَةً في بِئْرَ سَبْع ودَعا هُناكَ بِٱسْمِ الرَّبِّ الإِلٰهِ السَّرمَديّ

ونَزَلَ إِبْراهيمُ بِأَرضِ الفَلِسطينِيِّينَ أَيَّامًا كَثيرة

The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

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

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

Abraham said, “I will swear.”

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”

He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.