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1 El Señor se acordó de Sara y le cumplió lo que le había prometido.
1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
2 Por eso, Sara quedó embarazada y le dio un hijo a Abraham en su vejez, en el tiempo que Dios le había dicho.
2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 Al hijo que Sara le dio Abraham le dio el nombre de Isaac.
3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4 Cuando el niño cumplió ocho días, Abraham lo circuncidó, tal como Dios le había ordenado.
4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 Cuando Isaac nació, Abraham ya tenía cien años.
5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
6 Y Sara dijo: «Dios me ha hecho reír, y cualquiera que oiga que he tenido un hijo, se reirá conmigo.
6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
7 Porque, ¿quién se hubiera atrevido a decirle a Abraham que yo le iba a dar de mamar a un hijo? Sin embargo, ¡le he dado un hijo a Abraham en su vejez!».
7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 El niño creció y llegó a la edad en que fue destetado. Y Abraham celebró la ocasión con una gran fiesta.
8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
9 Pero Sara vio que Ismael, el hijo que la egipcia Agar le había dado a Abraham, se burlaba de Isaac.
9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10 Entonces fue y le dijo a Abraham: ―Echa a la esclava y a su hijo. ¡Jamás permitiré que el hijo de esa esclava participe de los bienes que le corresponden a mi hijo Isaac!
10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
11 Esto le causó mucho dolor a Abraham, porque, después de todo, Ismael también era hijo suyo.
11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
12 Pero Dios le dijo a Abraham: ―No te preocupes por el niño ni por la esclava. Haz lo que Sara te ha dicho, porque Isaac es el hijo a través del cual te daré descendencia.
12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
13 También de los descendientes del hijo de la esclava haré una nación, porque es tu hijo.
13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
14 Al día siguiente, Abraham se levantó temprano, preparó alimentos para el viaje, ató una vasija de cuero con agua a las espaldas de Agar y la despidió junto con su hijo. Ella se fue y anduvo de un lado para otro por el desierto de Berseba.
14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 Cuando se le terminó el agua de la vasija, puso al muchacho bajo un arbusto.
15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
16 Luego ella fue a sentarse a cierta distancia de allí, pues se decía a sí misma: «No quiero verlo morir». Cuando ella se sentó, el niño se puso a llorar a gritos.
16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
17 Entonces Dios oyó el clamor del niño, y el ángel de Dios llamó a Agar desde el cielo y le dijo: ―Agar, ¿qué te pasa? No tengas miedo. Dios ha oído el clamor del niño.
17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18 Anda, levanta al niño y tómalo de la mano, porque haré de él una nación grande.
18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
19 Entonces Dios le abrió los ojos y ella vio un pozo. Así que llenó la vasija de cuero y le dio de beber al niño.
19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
20 Dios bendijo a Ismael, el cual vivió en el desierto de Parán y se convirtió en un excelente arquero. Su madre lo casó con una egipcia.
20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
21 Not in this translation
21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22 Por este tiempo, el rey Abimélec, acompañado de Ficol, el comandante de sus tropas, fue a donde estaba Abraham y le dijo: ―Es evidente que Dios te bendice y te ayuda en todo lo que emprendes.
22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23 Júrame, por Dios, ahora mismo, que no nos harás daño ni a mí ni a mis hijos ni a mis descendientes. Júrame que, tanto a mí como a los habitantes de este país donde vives como extranjero, nos tratarás con la misma bondad con que yo te he tratado.
23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
24 Abraham contestó: ―¡Te lo juro!
24 Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25 Luego, Abraham le hizo el reclamo a Abimélec acerca de un pozo que los siervos de este le habían quitado.
25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26 ―Sólo hasta ahora me entero de esto —exclamó el rey—, y no sé quién tenga la culpa. ¿Por qué no me lo dijiste antes?
26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
27 Entonces Abraham le dio ovejas y vacas a Abimélec; y los dos hicieron un pacto.
27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
28 Abraham puso aparte siete corderas del rebaño.
28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 Entonces Abimélec le preguntó: ―¿Para qué son esas siete corderas que has separado?
29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
30 Abraham contestó: ―Es un regalo que te hago como confirmación pública de que este pozo es mío.
30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
31 Desde ese momento el pozo fue llamado Berseba (pozo del juramento), porque allí los dos hicieron un juramento.
31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
32 Después de haber hecho este pacto en Berseba, el rey Abimélec y Ficol, el comandante de su ejército, volvieron al país de los filisteos.
32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 Y Abraham plantó un árbol tamarisco allí en Berseba, e invocó el nombre del Señor, el Dios eterno.
33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
34 Y vivió Abraham en Filistea durante mucho tiempo.
34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abimelech
King of Gerar who took Sarah, was warned by God in a dream and returned her to Abraham, and made a covenant with Abraham at Beersheba; an Abimelech king of the Philistines at…
Cited in the guide: Genesis 20:2–3; Genesis 21:22–27; Genesis 26:1
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Hagar
Sarah's Egyptian servant who bore Ishmael and met God in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 16, 21
Isaac
The long-promised son, nearly offered on Moriah, through whom the covenant continued.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 21–27
Ishmael
Abraham's son by Hagar, blessed by God to become a great nation.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 16; 17:20; 21; 25:12–18
Phicol
Commander of Abimelech's army, who stood with him in the covenant at Beersheba with Abraham and again in the covenant with Isaac.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 21:22; Genesis 21:32; Genesis 26:26
Sarah
Wife of Abraham who bore Isaac in her old age, long after hope seemed gone.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 17-21
Places
Beersheba
The southern frontier of Israel ('from Dan to Beersheba'). Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all dug wells and worshiped here at the gateway to the Negev.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 21:31; Genesis 26:23; 1 Samuel 8:2
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 12:6; Genesis 18:10; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 17:19; Galatians 4:23
- 2 Galatians 4:22; Hebrews 11:11; Luke 1:24–25; Genesis 17:19; Luke 1:36
- 3 Genesis 17:19; Romans 9:7; Genesis 21:6; Matthew 1:2; Joshua 24:3
- 4 Acts 7:8; Genesis 17:10–12; Leviticus 12:3; John 7:22–23; Exodus 12:48
- 5 Genesis 17:17; Romans 4:19; Genesis 17:1
- 6 Psalm 126:2; Isaiah 54:1; Genesis 17:17; Luke 1:58; Galatians 4:27–28
- 7 Genesis 18:11–12; Isaiah 66:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; Deuteronomy 4:32–34; Numbers 23:23
- 8 1 Samuel 1:22; Hosea 1:8; Genesis 40:20; Genesis 29:22; Psalm 131:2
- 9 Galatians 4:29; Genesis 16:15; Galatians 4:22; Genesis 16:1; Psalm 44:13–14
- 10 John 8:35; Galatians 4:22–31; 1 John 2:19; 1 Peter 1:4; Genesis 36:6–7
- 11 Hebrews 12:11; Genesis 17:18; Matthew 10:37; Genesis 22:1–2; 2 Samuel 18:33
- 12 Hebrews 11:18; Romans 9:7–8; Genesis 17:19; 1 Samuel 8:9; 1 Samuel 8:7
- 13 Genesis 16:10; Genesis 17:20; Genesis 21:18; Genesis 25:12–18
- 14 Psalm 119:60; Genesis 21:31; Proverbs 27:14; 1 Kings 19:3; Genesis 25:6
- 15 Jeremiah 14:3; 2 Kings 3:9; Psalm 63:1; Exodus 15:22–25; Exodus 17:1–3
- 16 Isaiah 49:15; Ruth 1:9; 1 Kings 3:26; Judges 2:4; 1 Samuel 30:4
- 17 Genesis 16:11; Psalm 50:15; Psalm 91:15; Exodus 3:7; Genesis 16:9
- 18 Genesis 21:13; Genesis 16:10; 1 Chronicles 1:29–31; Genesis 17:20; Genesis 25:12–18
- 19 Numbers 22:31; 2 Kings 6:17–20; Isaiah 35:5–6; Luke 24:16–31
- 20 Genesis 28:15; Genesis 39:21; Genesis 16:12; Genesis 39:2–3; Luke 1:80
- 22 Joshua 3:7; Genesis 26:28; Genesis 26:26; Genesis 20:2; Romans 8:31
- 23 Joshua 2:12; Genesis 20:14; Genesis 14:22–23; Genesis 26:28; Genesis 31:44
- 24 Hebrews 6:16; Romans 12:18; Genesis 14:13
- 25 Genesis 26:15–22; Proverbs 27:5; Matthew 18:15; Judges 1:15; Genesis 29:8
- 26 2 Kings 5:20–24; Genesis 13:7
- 27 Genesis 26:28–31; Isaiah 32:8; Proverbs 18:16; Proverbs 18:24; Ezekiel 17:13
- 29 Genesis 33:8; Exodus 12:26; 1 Samuel 15:14
- 30 Genesis 31:52; Joshua 24:27; Joshua 22:27–28; Genesis 31:44–48
- 31 Genesis 26:33; Genesis 21:14; 1 Kings 4:25; Genesis 26:23; 2 Samuel 17:11
- 32 Genesis 21:27; 1 Samuel 18:3; Genesis 10:14; Genesis 26:8; Exodus 13:17
- 33 1 Timothy 1:17; Isaiah 40:28; Psalm 90:2; Romans 16:26; Jeremiah 10:10
- 34 Psalm 39:12; Hebrews 11:13; Genesis 20:1; 1 Peter 2:11; Hebrews 11:9
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For when Isaac was born and called by that name, Sarah showed that her laughter was not that of scornful reproach, but that of joyful praise; for she said, "God hath made me to laugh, so that every one who hears will laugh with me." Then in a little while the bond maid was cast out of the house with …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And when, after he had gained his son, he was commanded to offer him up, although he had heard the word, In Isaac shall thy seed be called, he proceeded to offer up his son, his only son, to God, believing that God is able to raise up even from the dead.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… by casting out the bond maid and her son, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called." No doubt He then goes on to say, "And as for the son of this bond woman, I will make him a great nation, because he is thy seed." How then is it said "In Isaac shall thy seed be called," when God calls …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For when it is said, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called," by this seed is meant solely the city of God; so that from it is separated Abraham's other seed, which was in the son of the bond woman, and which was to be in the sons of Keturah.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)