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That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
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So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
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This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
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And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
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Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
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and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.
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“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
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So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
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Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
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For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
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Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
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that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
