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CHAPTER 17:
The Expulsion Of Hagar
And Ishmael
1982 A.M.
(17:1-14; cf. Gen. 21:8-21)
1 And in the first year of the
†fifth† week Isaac was weaned
in this jubilee, and Abraham
made a great banquet in the
third month, on the day his
Cf. Gn. 21:8 son Isaac was weaned. 2 And
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the
Egyptian, was before the face
of Abraham, his father, in his
place, and Abraham rejoiced
and blessed Elohim because
he had seen his sons and had
Cf.16:16
not died childless. 3 And he
remembered the words which
He had spoken to him on the
day on which Lot had parted
from him, and he rejoiced
because Yahuah had given him
seed upon the earth to inherit
the earth, and he blessed with
all his mouth the Creator of
Cf. 13:19 ff
all things. 4 And Sarah saw
Possibly and Ishmael playing and dancing
dancing is
corrupt for and Abraham rejoicing with
with Isaac, great joy, and she became
which is read
in LXX and jealous of Ishmael and said
Vulg.;
cf. Gn. 21:9. to Abraham, “Cast out this
bondwoman and her son; for
the son of this bondwoman
For 4-13 cf.
Gn. 21:9-21 will not be heir with my son,
Isaac.” 5 And the thing was
grievous in Abraham’s sight,
because of his maidservant
and because of his son, that he
should drive them from him.
† Read
“fourth”
(Charles).
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6 And Elohim said to Abraham
“Let it not be grievous in thy
sight, because of the child and
because of the bondwoman;
in all that Sarah hath said unto
thee, hearken to her words and
do (them); for in Isaac shall
thy name and seed be called.
Sam.,
7 But as for the son of this LXX,
Syr. and
of Gn.
bondwoman I will make him Vulg.
21:13, have
a great nation, because he is great; but MT
omits.
of thy seed.” 8 And Abraham
rose up early in the morning
and took bread and a bottle of
water, and placed them on the
shoulders of Hagar and the
child, and sent her away. 9 And
she departed and wandered in
the wilderness of Beersheba,
and the water in the bottle was
spent, and the child thirsted,
and was not able to go on, and
fell down. 10 And his mother
(Gen.
took him and cast him under LXX
21:15) “under
fir tree”; MT
an olive tree, and went and sat a“under
one of
her down over against him, the shrubs.”
at the distance of a bow-shot;
for she said, “Let me not see
the death of my child,” and as
she sat she wept. 11 And an
angel of Elohim, one of the
holy ones, said unto her, “Why
weepest thou, Hagar? Arise,
take the child, and hold him
in thine hand; for Elohim hath
heard thy voice, and hath seen
the child.” 12 And she opened
her eyes, and she saw a well of
water, and she went and filled
