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CAP. XXI.

[verse 1] God forsothe visitide Sara, as he had bihiȝt [byhote BDEFH.] , and fulfillide that that he spak. [verse 2] And she conseyuede, and bare a sone in hir elde, in the tyme that God bifore seide to hir. [verse 3] And Abraham clepide the name of his sone, whom gat to hym Sara, Ysaac. [verse 4] And he circumsidide hym the eiȝte day, [verse 5] as God had comaundid hym, whan he was of an hundrid wynter; this forsothe age of the fadir Ysaac was born. [verse 6] And Sara seide, The Lord hath lawyng maad to me, and who so euer shal here shal with lawe to me. [verse 7] And eft she seith, Who to heren shulde leue Abraham, that Sara shulde ȝyue a child to sowk, whom she bare to hym now oold? [verse 8] Thanne the child growide and was don awey fro sowkyng; and Abraham made a greet feest, in the day of the wanyng of hym. [verse 9] And whan Sara had seen the sone of Agar Egipcian pleiynge with Ysaac, hir [verse 10] sone, she seide to Abraham, Throw out this hand mayden, and the sone of hir;

the sone of the hand mayden shal not be eyre with my sone Ysaac. [verse 11] Hard toke [verse 12] that Abraham for his sone; to whom God seide, Sharp be it not seen to thee vpon the child, and vpon thi [the BDFH.] hand mayden; alle thingis that Sara shal seye to thee, here the voys of hir, for in Ysaac shal be [verse 13] clepid seed to thee; but and the sone of the handmaydyn I shal make into a greet folk of kynde, for thi seed he is. [verse 14] And so Abraham aroos erly, and takynge breed, and a botel of water, leide to the shuldur of hym, and bitoke the childe, and lefte hir; the which, whanne he [sche BDEFH.] `was gon [went B sup. ras.] awey, erride in the wildirnes of Bersabee. [verse 15] And whan the water in the botel was doon, she threwe awey the [verse 16] child vndir a tree, that there was, and ȝede a wey, and she set forn aȝens `a fer [o ferre BEF.] , as myche as a bow may cast; she seide forsothe, I shal not se dyinge the child, and sittynge aȝens [there aȝens DH.] , heuede vp hir voys, and wepte. [verse 17] And the Lord herde the vois of the child, and the aungel of the Lord clepide Agar fro heuene, seiynge, Agar, what dost thow? wole thow not drede; God forsothe hath herd the vois of the child, fro the place in which he is. [verse 18] Aryse, and take the child, and holde the honde of hym; for into a greet folk I shal make hym. [verse 19] And God openede the eyen of hir, the whiche seynge the pit of water, ȝede, and fillide the botel, and ȝaue [verse 20] the child to drynk; and was with hym, the whiche wex, and dwellid in wildyrnes, [verse 21] and he was maad a ȝong sheter, and dwellid in the desert of Pharan; and his modir toke to hym a wijf of the lond of Egipt. [verse 22] The same tyme seide Abyma|lech, and Phicol, the prince of his oost, to Abraham, God is with thee in alle [verse 23] thingis that thow dost; thanne swere by God that thow noye not to me, ne to myn aftir comers, and to my lynage; but after the mercy that I haue do to thee, do thow to me, and to the loond in which

thow hast dwellid comelyng [a comelyng E pr. m.] . [verse 24] And Abra|ham seide, I shal swere. [verse 25] And he blamyde Abymalech for the pit of water, the which thurȝ force token a wey the seruauntis of hym. [verse 26] And Abymalec answerid, I wiste not who dide this thing, but and thow shewedist not to [Om. BDEFH.] me, and I herde not for|to to [Om. H.] day. [verse 27] And so Abraham toke sheep, and oxen, and ȝaue to Abymalech, and bothe thei smyten a boond of pees. [verse 28] And Abrahame ordeynede seuene she lambis of the flok asyde. [verse 29] To whom sayde Aby|malech, What to hem wilne thes seuen she lambis, the which thow hast maad stoond asyde? [verse 30] And he, Seuen, he seith, she lambis thow shalt take of myn honde, that thei be into witnes to me, for I del|uyde this pit. [verse 31] Therfore this place was clepid Bersabee, for there eithir swore, [verse 32] and ȝeden in couenaunt of pees for the pitt of othe. [verse 33] Abymalech forsothe aroos, and Phicol, the prince of his chyualrye [knyȝthode BDE pr. m. FH.] , and turneden aȝen into the loond of Pa|lestynes. Abraham forsothe plauntide a wode in Bersabee, and inwardli clepide there the name of euerlastynge [the euerlast|yng BDEFH.] God; [verse 34] and was a tilier of the erthe of Palestynes many dayes.