22. Expulsion (21:1-21)

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Yitzhak and Ishmael

21

1 OUR Lord helped Sara as he promised

he did for her what he had said he would

2 Sara got pregnant and gave Abraham a boy

when he was an old man, just when God had said

3 Abraham named the new-born boy,

his child that Sara gave him, Yitzhak

4 Abraham circumcised his son Yitzhak

when he was eight days old as God commanded

5 Abraham was a hundred years old

when his son Yitzhak was born

6 Sara said: now God has given me joy

and everyone who hears will be joyful for me

7 she said: who'd have told Abraham: "Sara is breastfeeding!"

because I've given birth when he's old to my boy

8 the boy grew and was weaned

and Abraham made a banquet

on the day when Yitzhak was weaned

9 Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian
who had given Abraham a boy and made fun of her

10 she told Abraham: send away that girl and her son

because your things will not be for that servant

but for my son, my Yitzhak

11 Abraham didn't approve of that, for it was his child

12 God said to him: don't worry about the boy and your maid

whatever Sara tells you, do as she says

for everything that is called yours will be for Yitzhak

13 and the maid's son will also become a people

because he too is a son of yours

14 early in the morning, Abraham

took tortillas and a skin full of water

gave them to Hagar, set on her back

the boy, and sent them away

she went wandering in the dry-land by Beer-Sheba

15 the water in the skin ran out

she laid the boy under a tree

16 she went and sat opposite an arrow-shot away

because she thought: "so I don't see my child die"

she sat in the distance, opened her mouth and cried

17 God heard the boy crying

he called his angel to leave heaven

and go to Hagar and he said to her:

What's the matter, Hagar? Do not fear

for God hears the boy where he is

18 get up, lift him up, hold him in your hand

because I am going to turn him into a great people

19 God made her open her eyes

and she saw a spring

she went and filled the skin with water

and gave it to the boy to drink

20 God was with the boy

he grew big and stayed in the dry-land

he became a bowsman

21 he stayed in the dry-land of Paran

and his mother married him to an Egyptian