KJV Bible MWP Genesis 21:1 - 23:20

GENESIS Chapters 21 - 23 KJV Bible (1769 Edition) Modern Words Paraphrase (MWP) Copyright (c) 2007 David A. Wagner.

Genesis Chapter 21

(21:1) And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had spoken. (21:2) For Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of that God had spoken to him. (21:3) And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. (21:4) And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. (21:5) And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. (21:6) And Sarah said, “God has made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.” (21:7) And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should have nursed children? for I have born him a son in his old age.”

(21:8) And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. (21:9) And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born to Abraham, mocking. (21:10) Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman and her son: for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.” (21:11) And the thing was very serious in Abraham's sight because of his son. (21:12) And God said to Abraham, “Let it not be serious in your sight because of the lad, and because of your slave woman; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac will your son be called. (21:13) And also of the son of the slave woman will I make a nation, because he is your heir.” (21:14) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

(21:15) And the water was spent in the bottle, and she placed the child under one of the shrubs. (21:16) And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. (21:17) And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, “What ailes you, Hagar? fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. (21:18) Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your hand; for I will make him a great nation.” (21:19) And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. (21:20) And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. (21:21) And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

(21:22) And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do: (21:23) 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 will do to me, and to the land wherein you have visited.“(21:24) And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

(21:25) And Abraham confronted Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. (21:26) And Abimelech said, “I know not who has done this thing: neither did you tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.” (21:27) And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. (21:28) And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. (21:29) And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves?” (21:30) And he said, “For these seven ewe lambs will you take of my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.” (21:31) Therefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them. (21:32) Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the chief captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. (21:33) And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. (21:34) And Abraham visited in the Philistines' land many days.


Genesis Chapter 22

(22:1) And it came to pass after these things, that God did test Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham”: and he said, “See, here I am.” (22:2) And he said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains that I will tell you of.” (22:3) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and chopped the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of that God had told him. (22:4) Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. (22:5) And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay you here with the donkey; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.” (22:6) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. (22:7) And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father”: and he said, “Here am I, my son.” And he said, “See the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” (22:8) And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.”

(22:9) And they came to the place that God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. (22:10) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. (22:11) And the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham”: and he said, “Here am I.” (22:12) And he said, “Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything to him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.” (22:13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and see behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
(22:14) And Abraham called the name of that place “the Lord will provide”: as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the Lord it will be provided.”

(22:15) And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham out of heaven the second time, (22:16) And said, By myself have I sworn, says the Lord, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only fathered son: (22:17) That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your heirs as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand that is upon the sea shore; and your heir will possess the gate of his enemies;
(22:18) And in your heir will all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice. (22:19) So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

(22:20) And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “See, Milcah, she has also born children to your brother Nahor;” (22:21) Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, (22:22) And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. (22:23) And Bethuel fathered Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. (22:24) And his mistress, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis Chapter 23

(23:1) And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. (23:2) And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. (23:3) And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, (23:4) “I am a visitor and a traveler with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” (23:5) And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, (23:6) “Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury your dead; none of us will withhold from you his sepulchre, but that you may bury your dead.” (23:7) And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. (23:8) And he communed with them, saying, “If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, (23:9) That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he will give it me for a possession of a burying place amongst you.” (23:10) And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, (23:11) “No, my lord, hear me: the field give I you, and the cave that is therein, I give it you; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it you: bury your dead.” (23:12) And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. (23:13) And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will give it, I ask you, hear me: I will give you money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.” (23:14) And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, (23:15) “My lord, listen to me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? bury therefore your dead.” (23:16) And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

(23:17) And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave that was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure (23:18) To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. (23:19) And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. (23:20) And the field, and the cave that is therein, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of Heth.