Skip to main content
Helpful SaintsFaith · Service · Compassion
Search Give nowWhere needed most Get helpStart here
Open Helpful Saints navigation
Scripture tools

Helpful Saints Corpus Reader

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

GEN-21

Reading display

Text size, spacing, and the sepia or night theme stay on this browser when storage is available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:1

And the Lord remembered Sarah according to that which He had said to her; and the Lord wrought a miracle for Sarah like to that for which Abraham had spoken in prayer for Abimelek.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:2

And she conceived, and Sarah bare to Abraham a son, who was like to himself in his age, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to him.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:3

And Abraham called the name of his son whom Sarah had borne him Izhak.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:4

And Abraham circumcised Izhak his son, when the son of eight days, as the Lord had commanded him.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:5

And Abraham was the son of an hundred years when Izhak his son was born to him.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, The Lord hath done wondrously for me; all who hear will wonder at me.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:7

And she said, How faithful was the messenger who announced to Abraham, and said, Sarah will nurse children, for she shall bring forth a son in her old age!

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:8

And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day when Izhak was weaned.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:9

And Sarah observed the son of Hagar the Mizreitha, whom she bare to Abraham, mocking with a strange worship, and bowing to the Lord.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:10

And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son: for it is not possible for the son of this handmaid to inherit with my son; and he to make war with Izhak.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:11

And the thing was very evil in Abraham's eyes, on account of Ishmael his son, who would practise a strange worship.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:12

And the Lord said to Abraham, Let it not be evil in thine eyes on account of the youth who goeth forth from thy nurturning, and of thy handmaid whom thou sendest away. Hearken unto all that Sarah saith to thee, because she is a prophetess; for in Izhak shall sons be called unto thee; and this son of the handmaid shall not be genealogized after thee.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:13

But the son of the handmaid have I set for a predatory people (le-am leistim), because he is thy son.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:14

And Abraham rose up in the morning, and took bread and a cruse of water, and gave to Hagar to bear upon her shoulder, and bound it to her loins, to signify that she was a servant, and the child, and dismissed her with a letter of divorce (be-gitta). And she went, and wandered from the way into the desert which was hard by Beersheba.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:15

And it was when they came to the entrance of the desert, they remembered to wander after strange worship; and Ishmael was seized with a burning thirst, and drank of the water till all the water was consumed from the cruse. And he was dried up, and withered in his flesh; and she carried him, and was exhausted, and she cried unto the Fear of his father, and He answered her not; and she laid the youth down at once under one of the trees.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:16

And she went and sat on one side, and cast away the idol (or the strange worship), and removed from her son, as the distance of an arrow from the bow; for she said, I am not able to see the death of the child. And she sat over against her son, and lifted up her voice and wept.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:17

And the voice of the youth was heard before the Lord for the righteousness' sake of Abraham; and the Angel of the Lord called to Hagar from heaven, and said, What to thee, Hagar? Faint not, for the voice of the youth is heard before the Lord; neither shall judgment be according to the evil which he will do, but according to the righteousness of Abraham is mercy upon him in the place where he is.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:18

Arise, support the child, and strengthen thine hand in him: for I have set him for a great people.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:19

And the Lord opened her eyes, and showed her a well of water, and she went and filled the cruse with water, and gave the youth to drink.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:20

And the Word of the Lord was the helper of the youth, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a skilful master of the bow.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:21

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and took for a wife Adisha, but put her away. And his mother took for him Phatima to wife, from the land of Mizraim.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:22

And it was at that time that Abimelek and Phikol, chief of his host, spake to Abraham, saying, The Word of the Lord is in thine aid in all whatsoever thou doest.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:23

And now, swear to me here, by the Word of the Lord, that thou wilt not be false with me, nor with my son, nor with the son of my son: according to the kindness which I have done with thee, thou shalt do with me, and with the land in which thou dwellest.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:24

And Abraham said to him, I swear.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:25

And Abraham remonstrated with Abimelek concerning the well of water of which the servants of Abimelek had deprived him.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:26

And Abimelek said, I knew not who did this thing; neither hast thou shown it to me; nor have I heard it from others, till today from thyself.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:27

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelek; and they both made a covenant.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:28

And Abraham set seven lambs apart and separated them from the oxen.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:29

And Abimelek said to Abraham, What are these seven lambs which thou hast set apart?

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:30

And he said, That thou mayest take the seven lambs from my hand, to be a testimony for me that I have digged this well.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:31

Therefore he called that well the Well of the Seven Lambs; because there they two did swear.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:32

And they struck a covenant at the Well of the Seven Lambs. And Abimelek and Phikol the Chief of his host arose and returned to the land of the Philistaee.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.

Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 21:33

And he planted a garden, (lit., "a paradise,") at the Well of the Seven Lambs, and prepared in the midst of it food and drink for them who passed by and who returned; and he preached to them there, Confess ye, and believe in the Name of the Word of the Lord, the everlasting God.

Study this passage
Prepare a passage questionPassage ID & source detailsWhere did this come from?External AI use is not authorized for this edition. Reading, comparison and citations remain available.
GEN-21 · All reading sections
Choose an edition

Ask about this passage

Read the original and English side by side

Shown only when this library already has both an original-language edition and an English edition. Matching section labels do not establish word or phrase alignment.

About this edition

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Etheridge historical English

Unverified edition

Reading language: eng · Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)

Recorded completeness: All five identified Pentateuch book exports; 5816 nonempty supplied verse sections across 187 chapter keys. Empty source slots remain absent, with no reconstructed or merged readings. Historical Etheridge English witness; source version title uses London 1862 for all books, retained unchanged, while the historical translation volumes were published 1862–1865.. Available reading sections are listed below.

Limited body coverage in this view · eng

187 chapter/reading unit(s) · 5816 nonempty passage record(s).

Fewer reading units or passage records than another edition of this work shown here. Editions may divide text differently.

Supported chapters & passages
  • GEN-1 · 31 passage record(s)
  • GEN-2 · 25 passage record(s)
  • GEN-3 · 24 passage record(s)
  • GEN-4 · 26 passage record(s)
  • GEN-5 · 29 passage record(s)
  • GEN-6 · 21 passage record(s)
  • GEN-7 · 24 passage record(s)
  • GEN-8 · 22 passage record(s)
  • GEN-9 · 29 passage record(s)
  • GEN-10 · 31 passage record(s)
  • GEN-11 · 32 passage record(s)
  • GEN-12 · 20 passage record(s)
  • GEN-13 · 18 passage record(s)
  • GEN-14 · 24 passage record(s)
  • GEN-15 · 21 passage record(s)
  • GEN-16 · 16 passage record(s)
  • GEN-17 · 27 passage record(s)
  • GEN-18 · 33 passage record(s)
  • GEN-19 · 38 passage record(s)
  • GEN-20 · 16 passage record(s)
  • GEN-21 · 33 passage record(s)
  • GEN-22 · 24 passage record(s)
  • GEN-23 · 20 passage record(s)
  • GEN-24 · 66 passage record(s)
  • GEN-25 · 34 passage record(s)
  • GEN-26 · 34 passage record(s)
  • GEN-27 · 46 passage record(s)
  • GEN-28 · 22 passage record(s)
  • GEN-29 · 35 passage record(s)
  • GEN-30 · 43 passage record(s)
  • GEN-31 · 54 passage record(s)
  • GEN-32 · 33 passage record(s)
  • GEN-33 · 20 passage record(s)
  • GEN-34 · 31 passage record(s)
  • GEN-35 · 29 passage record(s)
  • GEN-36 · 43 passage record(s)
  • GEN-37 · 36 passage record(s)
  • GEN-38 · 30 passage record(s)
  • GEN-39 · 22 passage record(s)
  • GEN-40 · 23 passage record(s)
  • GEN-41 · 56 passage record(s)
  • GEN-42 · 38 passage record(s)
  • GEN-43 · 34 passage record(s)
  • GEN-44 · 32 passage record(s)
  • GEN-45 · 28 passage record(s)
  • GEN-46 · 34 passage record(s)
  • GEN-47 · 31 passage record(s)
  • GEN-48 · 22 passage record(s)
  • GEN-49 · 33 passage record(s)
  • GEN-50 · 26 passage record(s)
  • EXO-1 · 22 passage record(s)
  • EXO-2 · 25 passage record(s)
  • EXO-3 · 22 passage record(s)
  • EXO-4 · 30 passage record(s)
  • EXO-5 · 23 passage record(s)
  • EXO-6 · 30 passage record(s)
  • EXO-7 · 28 passage record(s)
  • EXO-8 · 28 passage record(s)
  • EXO-9 · 35 passage record(s)
  • EXO-10 · 29 passage record(s)
  • EXO-11 · 10 passage record(s)
  • EXO-12 · 49 passage record(s)
  • EXO-13 · 22 passage record(s)
  • EXO-14 · 31 passage record(s)
  • EXO-15 · 27 passage record(s)
  • EXO-16 · 36 passage record(s)
  • EXO-17 · 16 passage record(s)
  • EXO-18 · 27 passage record(s)
  • EXO-19 · 25 passage record(s)
  • EXO-20 · 23 passage record(s)
  • EXO-21 · 37 passage record(s)
  • EXO-22 · 30 passage record(s)
  • EXO-23 · 33 passage record(s)
  • EXO-24 · 18 passage record(s)
  • EXO-25 · 39 passage record(s)
  • EXO-26 · 37 passage record(s)
  • EXO-27 · 20 passage record(s)
  • EXO-28 · 43 passage record(s)
  • EXO-29 · 46 passage record(s)
  • EXO-30 · 38 passage record(s)
  • EXO-31 · 18 passage record(s)
  • EXO-32 · 35 passage record(s)
  • EXO-33 · 23 passage record(s)
  • EXO-34 · 35 passage record(s)
  • EXO-35 · 35 passage record(s)
  • EXO-36 · 38 passage record(s)
  • EXO-37 · 28 passage record(s)
  • EXO-38 · 31 passage record(s)
  • EXO-39 · 40 passage record(s)
  • EXO-40 · 38 passage record(s)
  • LEV-1 · 17 passage record(s)
  • LEV-2 · 16 passage record(s)
  • LEV-3 · 17 passage record(s)
  • LEV-4 · 35 passage record(s)
  • LEV-5 · 26 passage record(s)
  • LEV-6 · 23 passage record(s)
  • LEV-7 · 38 passage record(s)
  • LEV-8 · 36 passage record(s)
  • LEV-9 · 24 passage record(s)
  • LEV-10 · 20 passage record(s)
  • LEV-11 · 47 passage record(s)
  • LEV-12 · 8 passage record(s)
  • LEV-13 · 58 passage record(s)
  • LEV-14 · 57 passage record(s)
  • LEV-15 · 33 passage record(s)
  • LEV-16 · 34 passage record(s)
  • LEV-17 · 16 passage record(s)
  • LEV-18 · 30 passage record(s)
  • LEV-19 · 37 passage record(s)
  • LEV-20 · 27 passage record(s)
  • LEV-21 · 24 passage record(s)
  • LEV-22 · 33 passage record(s)
  • LEV-23 · 44 passage record(s)
  • LEV-24 · 23 passage record(s)
  • LEV-25 · 55 passage record(s)
  • LEV-26 · 46 passage record(s)
  • LEV-27 · 34 passage record(s)
  • NUM-1 · 53 passage record(s)
  • NUM-2 · 33 passage record(s)
  • NUM-3 · 50 passage record(s)
  • NUM-4 · 49 passage record(s)
  • NUM-5 · 31 passage record(s)
  • NUM-6 · 27 passage record(s)
  • NUM-7 · 89 passage record(s)
  • NUM-8 · 26 passage record(s)
  • NUM-9 · 23 passage record(s)
  • NUM-10 · 36 passage record(s)
  • NUM-11 · 35 passage record(s)
  • NUM-12 · 16 passage record(s)
  • NUM-13 · 33 passage record(s)
  • NUM-14 · 45 passage record(s)
  • NUM-15 · 41 passage record(s)
  • NUM-16 · 35 passage record(s)
  • NUM-17 · 28 passage record(s)
  • NUM-18 · 32 passage record(s)
  • NUM-19 · 22 passage record(s)
  • NUM-20 · 29 passage record(s)
  • NUM-21 · 35 passage record(s)
  • NUM-22 · 41 passage record(s)
  • NUM-23 · 30 passage record(s)
  • NUM-24 · 25 passage record(s)
  • NUM-25 · 18 passage record(s)
  • NUM-26 · 65 passage record(s)
  • NUM-27 · 23 passage record(s)
  • NUM-28 · 31 passage record(s)
  • NUM-29 · 39 passage record(s)
  • NUM-30 · 17 passage record(s)
  • NUM-31 · 54 passage record(s)
  • NUM-32 · 42 passage record(s)
  • NUM-33 · 56 passage record(s)
  • NUM-34 · 29 passage record(s)
  • NUM-35 · 34 passage record(s)
  • NUM-36 · 11 passage record(s)
  • DEU-1 · 46 passage record(s)
  • DEU-2 · 37 passage record(s)
  • DEU-3 · 29 passage record(s)
  • DEU-4 · 49 passage record(s)
  • DEU-5 · 30 passage record(s)
  • DEU-6 · 25 passage record(s)
  • DEU-7 · 26 passage record(s)
  • DEU-8 · 20 passage record(s)
  • DEU-9 · 29 passage record(s)
  • DEU-10 · 22 passage record(s)
  • DEU-11 · 32 passage record(s)
  • DEU-12 · 31 passage record(s)
  • DEU-13 · 19 passage record(s)
  • DEU-14 · 29 passage record(s)
  • DEU-15 · 23 passage record(s)
  • DEU-16 · 22 passage record(s)
  • DEU-17 · 20 passage record(s)
  • DEU-18 · 22 passage record(s)
  • DEU-19 · 21 passage record(s)
  • DEU-20 · 20 passage record(s)
  • DEU-21 · 23 passage record(s)
  • DEU-22 · 29 passage record(s)
  • DEU-23 · 26 passage record(s)
  • DEU-24 · 22 passage record(s)
  • DEU-25 · 19 passage record(s)
  • DEU-26 · 19 passage record(s)
  • DEU-27 · 26 passage record(s)
  • DEU-28 · 69 passage record(s)
  • DEU-29 · 28 passage record(s)
  • DEU-30 · 20 passage record(s)
  • DEU-31 · 30 passage record(s)
  • DEU-32 · 52 passage record(s)
  • DEU-33 · 29 passage record(s)
  • DEU-34 · 12 passage record(s)

Body coverage is separate from textual verification. Counts do not establish complete chapters or textual completeness.

Scripture FirstSources ClassifiedEvidence VisibleCounterpoints PreservedMember Research PrivateAI Never Claims Divine Authority

Evidence Intelligence

Know what kind of evidence you are looking at.

Helpful Saints keeps direct biblical text, language evidence, ancient witnesses, historical context, research models, and open questions visibly distinct.
Primary

Direct Biblical Text

The explicit wording and literary context of canonical Scripture.

Primary Support

Original-Language Evidence

Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, morphology, lemmas, semantic range, and textual comparison.

Comparative

Ancient Witness

Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish literature, and early Christian writings—clearly classified.

Contextual

Historical Context

Geography, material culture, chronology ranges, institutions, customs, and reception history.

Interpretive

Research Model

A configured chronology, theological synthesis, typological pattern, or proposed relationship.

Unresolved

Open Question

Evidence is incomplete, debated, or insufficient for a settled conclusion.

Message Helpful Saints

Helpful Saints · Research across the site

Search & explore

Choose a topic, or search the site.