from her, now yield the woman to her husband, and he shall pray for thee, he is a prophet and thou shalt live.  And if thou deliver her not, thou shalt die, and all they that be in thy house.  Abimelech arose up the same night and called all his servants, and told them all these words.  All they dreaded sore.  Also Abimelech called Abraham and said to him:  What hast thou done to us, that we have trespassed to thee?  Thou hast caused me and my realm to sin greatly.  Thou hast done that thou shouldst not have done.  What sawest thou for to do so?  Abraham said:  I thought that the dread of God was not in this place, and that ye would slay me for my wife; and certainly otherwise she is also my sister, the daughter of my father but not of my mother, and I have wedded her.  And after that I went from the house of my father, I said to her:  Wheresomever we go say thou art my sister.

Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and servants and maidens, and gave to Abraham, and delivered to him Sarah his wife, and said:  Lo! the land is here tofore thee, wheresoever thou wilt, dwell and abide.  And he said to Sarah:  Lo!  I have given to thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall be to thee a veil of thine eyes, and wheresomever thou go, remember that thou wert taken.  Abraham prayed for Abimelech and his meiny [company] and God healed him, his wife and all his servants.  Our Lord then visited Sarah, and she brought forth a son in her old age, that same time that God had promised.  Abraham called his son that she had borne, Isaac, and when he was eight days old he circumcised him as God had commanded, and Abraham was then an hundred years old.  Then said Sarah:  Who would have supposed that I should give suck to my child, being so old?  I laughed when I heard our Lord say so, and all they that shall hear of it may well laugh.  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast at the day of his weaning.  After this, on a day when Sarah saw the son of Hagar her handmaid play with her son Isaac, she said to Abraham:  Cast out this handmaid with her son, the son of the handmaid shall not be heir with my son Isaac.  Abraham took this word hard and grievously for his son.  Then said God to him:  Let it not be hard to thee for thy son and handmaid, whatsomever Sarah say to thee hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.  Yet shall I make the son of the handmaid grow into great people, for he is of thy seed.  Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and laid it on her shoulder, and gave to her the child and let her go, which, when she was departed, erred in the wilderness of Beersheba.  And when the water was consumed that was in the bottle, she left the child under a tree that was there and went thence as far as a bow shot and sat her down, and said:  I shall not see my son die, and there she wept.  Our Lord heard the voice of the child, and an angel called Hagar saying, What doest thou, Hagar?  Be not afeard,