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Genesis 21:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

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Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:




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