Wednesday 1 July 2015

5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son,Isaac, was born to him.

· · · verses 6–7 are not read8The child grew and was weaned.Abraham made a great feast on the daythat Isaac was weaned.9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.10Therefore she said to Abraham,“Cast out this servant and her son!For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

11The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.12God said to Abraham,“Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy,and because of your servant.In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice.For your offspring will be named through Isaac.13I will also make a nation of the son of the servant,because he is your child.”14Abraham rose up early in the morning,and took bread and a container of water,and gave it to Hagar,putting it on her shoulder;and gave her the child, and sent her away.She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.15The water in the container was spent,and she put the child under one of the shrubs.16She went and sat down opposite him,a good way off, about a bow shot away.For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.”She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.17God heard the voice of the boy.

The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky,and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar?Don’t be afraid.For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand.For I will make him a great nation.”

19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water.She went, filled the container with water,and gave the boy a drink.

20God was with the boy, and he grew.He lived in the wilderness,and as he grew up,he became an archer.

7This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,and saved him out of all his troubles.8The Lord’s angel encamps around those who fear him,and delivers them.

10Oh fear the Lord, you his saints,for there is no lack with those who fear him.11The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.

12Come, you children, listen to me.I will teach you the fear of the Lord.13Who is someone who desires life,and loves many days, that he may see good?

28When he came to the other side,into the country of the Gergesenes,two people possessed by demons met him there,coming out of the tombs,exceedingly fierce,so that nobody could pass that way.29Behold, they cried out,saying, “What do we have to do with you,Jesus, Son of God?Have you come here to torment us before the time?”30Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.31The demons begged him,saying, “If you cast us out,permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

32He said to them, “Go!”

They came out and went into the herd of pigs;and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the seaand died in the water.33Those who fed them fledand went away into the city and told everything,including what happened to thosewho were possessed with demons.34Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus.When they saw him,they begged that he would depart from their borders.