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Genesis 21:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But Sarah saw the son mocking #– #the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

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So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram named his son (whom Hagar bore) Ishmael.


But just as then the child born as a result of the flesh persecuted the one born as a result of the Spirit,  so also now.


For it is written that Abraham  had two sons, one by a slave  and the other by a free woman.


Abram’s wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.


During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.


Even a young man is known by his actions – by whether his behaviour is pure and upright.


But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,  despising his words,  and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.


The couriers travelled from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the inhabitants  laughed at them and mocked them.


Others experienced mocking and scourging, as well as bonds and imprisonment.


As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders,  and I will make him into a great nation.


But now they mock   me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.


The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.


Drive out a mocker,  and conflict goes too; then quarrelling and dishonour will cease.





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