Audio sermon genesis 34 skin#

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. And God was with the boy, and he grew up.

Audio sermon genesis 34 skin#

And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.’ Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, ‘What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, ‘Let me not look on the death of the child.’ And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.’ 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. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named. But God said to Abraham, ‘Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. So she said to Abraham, ‘Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.’ And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah said, ‘God has made laughter for me everyone who hears will laugh over me.’ And she said, ‘Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.’ And the child grew and was weaned.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. “The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.