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If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master"s, and he shall go out by himself.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines" land many days.

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech"s servants had violently taken away.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son"s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.