Genesis 21
Reading Genesis chapter 21 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
5 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.
6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
7 And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:
10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
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