1   God forsothe visitide Sara, as he had bihi&yogh;t, and fulfillide that that he spak. 2   And she conseyuede, and bare a sone in hir elde, in the tyme that God bifore seide to hir. 3   And Abraham clepide the name of his sone, whom gat to hym Sara, Ysaac. 4   And he circumsidide hym the ei&yogh;te day, as God had comaundid hym, 5   whan he was of an hundrid wynter; this forsothe age of the fadir Ysaac was born. 6   And Sara seide, The Lord hath lawyng maad to me, and who so euer shal here shal with lawe to me. 7   And eft she seith, Who to heren shulde leue Abraham, that Sara shulde &yogh;yue a child to sowk, whom she bare to hym now oold? 8   Thanne the child growide and was don awey fro sowkyng; and Abraham made a greet feest, in the day of the wanyng of hym. 9   And whan Sara had seen the sone of Agar Egipcian pleiynge with Ysaac, hir sone, 10   she seide to Abraham, Throw out this hand mayden, and the sone of hir;

the sone of the hand mayden shal not be eyre with my sone Ysaac. 11   Hard toke that Abraham for his sone; 12   to whom God seide, Sharp be it not seen to thee vpon the child, and vpon thi hand mayden; alle thingis that Sara shal seye to thee, here the voys of hir, for in Ysaac shal be clepid seed to thee; 13   but and the sone of the handmaydyn I shal make into a greet folk of kynde, for thi seed he is. 14   And so Abraham aroos erly, and takynge breed, and a botel of water, leide to the shuldur of hym, and bitoke the childe, and lefte hir; the which, whanne he `was gon awey, erride in the wildirnes of Bersabee. 15   And whan the water in the botel was doon, she threwe awey the child vndir a tree, 16   that there was, and &yogh;ede awey, and she set forn a&yogh;ens `a fer, as myche as a bow may cast; she seide forsothe, I shal not se dyinge the child, and sittynge a&yogh;ens, heuede vp hir voys, and wepte. 17   And the Lord herde the vois of the child, and the aungel of the Lord clepide Agar fro heuene, seiynge, Agar, what dost thow? wole thow not drede; God forsothe hath herd the vois of the child, fro the place in which he is. 18   Aryse, and take the child, and holde the honde of hym; for into a greet folk I shal make hym. 19   And God openede the eyen of hir, the whiche seynge the pit of water, &yogh;ede, and fillide the botel, and &yogh;aue the child to drynk; 20   and was with hym, the whiche wex, and dwellid in wildyrnes, and he was maad a &yogh;ong sheter, 21   and dwellid in the desert of Pharan; and his modir toke to hym a wijf of the lond of Egipt. 22   The same tyme seide Abymalech, and Phicol, the prince of his oost, to Abraham, God is with thee in alle thingis that thow dost; 23   thanne swere by God that thow noye not to me, ne to myn aftir comers, and to my lynage; but after the mercy that I haue do to thee, do thow to me, and to the loond in which

thow hast dwellid comelyng. 24   And Abraham seide, I shal swere. 25   And he blamyde Abymalech for the pit of water, the which thur&yogh; force token awey the seruauntis of hym. 26   And Abymalec answerid, I wiste not who dide this thing, but and thow shewedist not to me, and I herde not forto to day. 27   And so Abraham toke sheep, and oxen, and &yogh;aue to Abymalech, and bothe thei smyten a boond of pees. 28   And Abrahame ordeynede seuene she lambis of the flok asyde. 29   To whom sayde Abymalech, What to hem wilne thes seuen she lambis, the which thow hast maad stoond asyde? 30   And he, Seuen, he seith, she lambis thow shalt take of myn honde, that thei be into witnes to me, for I deluyde this pit. 31   Therfore this place was clepid Bersabee, for there eithir swore, 32   and &yogh;eden in couenaunt of pees for the pitt of othe. 33   Abymalech forsothe aroos, and Phicol, the prince of his chyualrye, and turneden a&yogh;en into the loond of Palestynes. Abraham forsothe plauntide a wode in Bersabee, and inwardli clepide there the name of euerlastynge God; 34   and was a tilier of the erthe of Palestynes many dayes.

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