1   And our Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled the things which he spake.

2   And she conceaued and bare a sonne in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

3   And Abraham called the name of his sonne, which Sara bare him, ^note Isaac:

4   and he circumcised him the eight day, as God had commanded him,

5   when he was an hundred yeares old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac borne.

6   And Sara said: Laughter God hath

Abraham. made to me: whosoeuer shal heare of it, wil laugh with me.

7   And again she said: Who that shal heare of it would beleue Abraham, that Sara gaue sucke to a sonne, which she bare him now being an old man?

8   The child therfore grewe, and was weined: and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weining.

9   And when Sara had senne the sonne of Agar the Ægyptian playing with Isaac her sonne, she said to Abraham:

10   Cast out this handmaid, and her sonne: for the sonne of the handmaid shal not be heire with my sonne Isaac.

11   Abraham tooke this greuously for his sonne.

12   To whom God said:09Q0060 Let it not seme greuous to thee for the boy, and for thy handmaid: al things that Sara shal say to thee, heare her voice: because ^note in Isaac shal seed de called to thee.

13   But the sonne also of the handmaid I wil make into a great nation, because he is thy seede.

14   Abraham therfore rose vp in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it vpon her shoulder, and deliuered the boy and dismist her. Who went away, and wandred in the wildernesse of Bersabee.

15   And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy vnder one of the trees, that were there.

16   And she went her way, and sate ouer against a great way of as farre as a bowe can cast. for she said: I wil no see the child dying: and sitting ouer against, she lifted vp her voice and wept.

17   And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called Agar from heauen, saying: What doest thou Agar? feare not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherin he is.

18   Arise, take vp the boy, and hold his hand: for into a great nation wil I make him.

19   And God opened her eyes: who seing a wel of water, went, and filled the bottle, and gaue the boy to drinke.

20   And God was with him: who grew, and abode in the wildernes, and became a young man archer.

21   And he dwelt in the wildernes of Pharan, and his mother tooke a wife for him out of the land of Ægypt.

22   The same time said Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his armie to Abraham: God is with thee in al things which thou doest.

23   Sweare therfore by God, not to hurt me, and my posteritie, and my stocke: but according to the mercie, that I haue done thee, thou shalt doe to me, and to the land wherin thou hast liued a stranger.

24   And Abraham said: I wil sweare.

25   And he rebuked Abimelech for the

Abraham wel of water, which his seruants had taken away by force.

16   And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: yea and thy selfe didest not tel me, and I heard not of it but to day.

27   Abraham therfore tooke sheepe and oxen, and gaue to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

28   And Abraham set seuen ewe lambes of the flocke apart.

29   To whom Abimelech said: What meane these seuen ewe lambes, which thou hast made to stand apart?

30   But he said: Seuen ewe lambes shalt thou take at my hand: that they may be a testimonie for me, that I digged this wel.

31   Therfor was that place called ^note Bersabee: because there both did sweare.

32   And they made a league for the wel of oath.

33   And Abimelech arose, and Phicol the general of his armie, and they returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a groue in Bersabee, and called therupon the name of our Lord God eternal.

34   And he was a seiorner in the land of the Palestines manie dayes.

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