And God herde the voyce of the childe. And the angell of God called
Hagar out of heaven and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the Hagar? Feare
not/ for God hath herde the voyce of the childe where he lyeth. Aryse
and lyfte vp the lad/ and take hym in thy hande/ for I will make off
him a greate people. And God opened hir eyes and she sawe a well of
water. And she went and fylled the bottell with water/ and gaue the
boye drynke. And God was wyth the lad/ and he grewe and dweld in the
wildernesse/ and became an archer. And he dweld in the wyldernesse of
Pharan. And hys mother gott him a wyfe out of the land of Egypte.
And it chaunced the same season/ that Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe
captayne spake vnto Abraham saynge: God is wyth the in all that thou
doist. Now therfore swere vnto me even here by God/ that thou wylt not
hurt me nor my childern/ nor my childerns childern. But that thou
shalt deale with me and the contre where thou art a straunger/
acordynge vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed the. Then sayde
Abraham: I wyll swere.
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water/ which Abimelech
servauntes had taken awaye. And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd
it: Also thou toldest me not/ nether herde I of it/ but this daye.
And Abraham toke shepe and oxen and gaue them vnto Abimelech. And they
made both of them a bonde together. And Abraham sett vij. lambes by
them selues. And Abimelech sayde vnto Abraham: what meane these .vij.
lambes which thou hast sett by them selues. And he answered: vij.
lambes shalt thou take of my hande/ that it maye be a wytnesse vnto
me/ that I haue dygged this well: Wherfore the place is called
Berseba/ because they sware both of them. Thus made they a bonde to
gether at Berseba.
Than Abimelech and Phicoll his chefe
captayne rose vp and turned agayne vnto the
lande of the Philistines. And Abraham planted
a wodd in Berseba/ and called there/
on the name of the LORde
the everlastynge God: and
dwelt in the Phelistin
lãde a longe
season
¶ The .xxij. Chapter.
After these dedes/ God dyd proue Abraham & sayde vnto him: Abraham.
And he answered: here am I. And he sayde: take thy only sonne Isaac
whome thou louest/ & get the vnto the lande of Moria/ and sacrifyce
him there for a sacrifyce vpon one of the mountayns which I will shewe
the Than Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge and sadled his asse/
and toke two of his meyny wyth him/ and Isaac his sonne: ãd clove wod
for the sacrifyce/ and rose vp and gott him to the place which God had
appoynted him.
The thirde daye Abraham lyfte vp his eyes and sawe the place a farr
of/ and sayde vnto his yong men: byde here with the asse. I and the
lad will goo yonder and worshippe and come agayne vnto you. And
Abraham toke the wodd of the sacrifyce and layde it vpon Isaac his
sonne/ and toke fyre in his hande and a knyfe. And they went both of
them together.
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