So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”
Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob. For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.”
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
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