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Heart of David Study Bible GENESIS

the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Elohim heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of Elohim called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What is the
matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle
with water, and gave the boy drink. Elohim was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in
the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. He lived in the wilderness of
Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Mitsrayim.

It happened at that time, that Abimelek and Pikol the captain of his army spoke to
Abraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do. Now, therefore, swear to me
here by Elohim 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 Abimelek because of a
water well, which Abimelek’s servants had violently taken away. Abimelek said, “I
don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, neither did I hear of it, until
today.”

Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelek. Those two made a
covenant. Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. Abimelek 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 there. So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelek rose
up with Pikol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh,
the El Olam [Ageless Mighty One]. Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the
Philistines many days.

It happened after these things, that Elohim tested Abraham, and said to him,
“Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Yitshak, and
go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains
which I will tell you of.”
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his
young men with him, and Yitshak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and
rose up, and went to the place of which Elohim had told him. On the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here
with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to
you.” Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitshak his son. He

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