Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH
Eloheinu
melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch
atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH
the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are
you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among
all the peoples, and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of
the Torah. Ameyn.)
Gen 21:1 And יהוה visited Sarah as He had said, and יהוה
did for Sarah as He had spoken. (Mat 1:18-25) (Mat 1:20) ….for that which is in her was
brought forth from the Set-apart Spirit.
Gen 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore Aḇraham a son
in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him. (Yahshua
was also born at an appointed time)
Gen 21:3 And Aḇraham called the name of his son who
was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitsḥaq.
Gen 21:4 And Aḇraham circumcised his son Yitsḥaq
when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him. (Yahshua was also
circumcised on the eighth day Luke 2:21)
Gen 21:5 And Aḇraham was one hundred years old when
his son Yitsḥaq was born to him.
Gen 21:6 And Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh,
and everyone who hears of it laughs with me.”
Gen 21:7 And she said, “Who would have said to Aḇraham
that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old
age.”
Gen 21:8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Aḇraham
made a great feast on the day that Yitsḥaq was weaned.
Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the
Mitsrian, whom she had borne to Aḇraham, mocking.
Gen 21:10 So she said to Aḇraham, “Drive out this
female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not
inherit with my son, with Yitsḥaq.”
The word “mocking” in Hebrew is “metzachek” and
appears as a “piel participle” verb -“to mock” or treat with contempt. This
Hebrew word ‘’metzachek’’ first used when Israel committed the sin of the
golden calf also implies being sexually perverse - Exo 32:6 And
they rose early on the next day, and offered ascending offerings, and brought
peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.(Heb litzachek)
Gen 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes
of Aḇraham because of his son.
Gen 21:12 But Elohim said to Aḇraham, “Let it not
be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant.
Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsḥaq your seed
is called.
Gen 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant I
also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
Gen 21:14 And Aḇraham rose early in the morning,
and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her
shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the
Wilderness of Be’ěrsheḇa.
Gen 21:15 And the water in the skin was used up,
and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.
Gen 21:16 And she went and sat down about a bowshot
away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite
him, and lifted her voice and wept.
Gen 21:17 And Elohim heard the voice of the boy,
and the messenger of Elohim called to Haḡar from the heavens, and said to her,
“What is the matter with you, Haḡar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the
voice of the boy where he is.
Gen 21:18 “Arise, lift up the boy and hold him with
your hand, for I make a great nation of him.”
Gen 21:19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a
drink.
Gen 21:20 And Elohim was with the boy, and he grew
and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran,
and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim.
A Treaty with Abimelech
Gen 21:22 And it came to be at that time that Aḇimeleḵ
and Piḵol, the commander of his army, spoke to Aḇraham, saying, “Elohim is with
you in all that you do.
Gen 21:23 “And now, swear to me by Elohim, not to
be untrue to me, to my offspring, or to my descendants. Do to me according to
the loving-commitment that I have done to you and to the land in which you have
dwelt.”
Gen 21:24 And Aḇraham said, “I swear.”
Gen 21:25 And Aḇraham reproved Aḇimeleḵ because of
a well of water which Aḇimeleḵ’s servants had seized.
Gen 21:26 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “I do not know who has
done this deed. Neither did you inform me, nor did I hear until today.”
Gen 21:27 So Aḇraham took sheep and cattle and gave
them to Aḇimeleḵ, and the two of them made a covenant.
Gen 21:28 And Aḇraham set seven ewe lambs of the
flock by themselves.
Gen 21:29 And Aḇimeleḵ asked Aḇraham, “What are
these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”
Gen 21:30 And he said, “Take these seven ewe lambs
from my hand, to be my witness that I have dug this well.”
Gen 21:31 So he called that place Be’ěrsheḇa,
because the two of them swore an oath there.
Gen 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Be’ěrsheḇa.
And Aḇimeleḵ rose with Piḵol, the commander of his army, and they returned to
the land of the Philistines.
Gen 21:33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in
Be’ěrsheḇa, and there called on the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ěl.
Gen 21:34 And Aḇraham sojourned in the land of the
Philistines many days.
Gal 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up
all mankind under sin, that the promise by belief in יהושע Messiah might be given to
those who believe.
Gal
3:23 But before belief came, we were being guarded under Torah, having
been shut up for the belief being about to be revealed.
Gal
3:24 Therefore the Torah became our trainer unto Messiah, in order to be
declared right by belief.
Gal
3:25 And after belief has come, we are no longer under a trainer.
(Gk – ‘’pedagogos’’ escort)