Birth of Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ – SârꞋâh Gets The Last Tzᵊkhōq!

When SârꞋâh gave birth to a son, Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ, who was then already 100 years old, named him Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ, as Ël•oh•imꞋ had commanded him.

Bᵊrit Mil•âhꞋ

On the 8^th day, Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ made the Bᵊrit Mil•âhꞋ as Ël•oh•imꞋ had commanded him. When Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ was weaned, Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ made a great feast to celebrate.

Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ Divorces Hâ•gârꞋ, The Egyptian Maid

Expelling Her Son, Yi•shᵊm•â•eilꞋ

Mi•dᵊbarꞋ Pa•ranꞋ in the Sin•aiꞋ

From the time Hâ•gârꞋ first became pregnant by Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ, she began a history of slighting and disrespecting SârꞋâh. Already fed up with disrespect from her maid, now SârꞋâh finds her maid's son, Yi•shᵊm•â•eilꞋ, mᵊtza•kheiqꞋ about her!

That was all SârꞋâh could take. "Divorce this woman with her son!" she demanded of Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ. "The son of that Egyptian maid shall not share in the inheritance of my son!"

This seemed to Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ to be a harsh adversity on his son. Nevertheless, in the promise that his descendants would be through SârꞋâh, Ël•oh•imꞋ implied to him that SârꞋâh was right; and that Yi•shᵊm•â•eilꞋ would also become a goy.

So, early the next morning, Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ loaded up bread, a water skin in a backpack, and the young boy, for Hâ•gârꞋ and sent them away into the mi•dᵊbârꞋ southwest of Bᵊeir ShëvꞋa, back to Egypt.

רֹתֶם – mature Broom shrub (Retama-raetam, photo: James Steakley)

Hâ•gârꞋ got lost along the way and the two used up the water in the skin. Because Hâ•gârꞋ couldn't bear to watch her son die of heat stroke, she sent the young boy to sit under one of the desert bushes while she pretended to go look for water – though she had no idea where there might be any water. Then she went off by herself a ways and sat down to die; and she cried.

But it was the crying of the young boy that Ël•oh•imꞋ heard in the form of a ma•lâkhꞋ Ël•oh•imꞋ, who recognized her. Standing over Hâ•gârꞋ, he called her by name, "What's your situation, Hâ•gârꞋ? Don't be afraid because Ël•oh•imꞋ has heard the voice of the young boy in his situation. Get up, get the boy up, and take his hand; for I am making a great goy of him." Then Ël•oh•imꞋ opened her eyes as the ma•lâkhꞋ gave her directions to the well. When she finally reached the well, she filled the skin and gave the boy to drink.

Ël•oh•imꞋ was with the boy as he grew up. He settled in Mi•dᵊbarꞋ Pa•ranꞋ and became an expert archer, where Hâ•gârꞋ, an Egyptian herself, arranged his marriage to an Egyptian girl.