~ Isaac Is Born and Ishmael Leaves ~

Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah
as He had said,
and the Lord did for Sarah
what He had promised.
Sarah became pregnant
and bore a son to Abraham in his old age,
at the very time
God had promised him.
Abraham gave the name Isaac
to the son Sarah bore him.
When his son Isaac was eight days old,
Abraham circumcised him,
as God commanded him.
Abraham was a hundred years old
when his son Isaac was born to him.

Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter,
and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham
that Sarah would nurse children?
Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

The child grew and was weaned,
and on the day Isaac was weaned
Abraham held a great feast.
But Sarah saw
that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian
had borne to Abraham was mocking,
and she said to Abraham,
"Get rid of that slave woman and her son,
for that slave woman's son
will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac."

The matter distressed Abraham greatly
because it concerned his son.
But God said to him,
"Do not be so distressed
about the boy and your maidservant.
Listen to whatever Sarah tells you,
because it is through Isaac
that your offspring will be reckoned.
I will make the son of the maidservant
into a nation also,
because he is your offspring."

(Genesis 21:1-13)