Sarah Sends Away Hagar And Ishmael
Worship
In the Beginning Was the Word
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle A
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
4 readers - 2 men, 2 women
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
3 = Sarah
4 = God
1: (Isaac) the child (of Sarah and Abraham) grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
2: But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham,
3: "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac."
1: The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to Abraham,
4: "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring."
1: So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away.
2: And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Do not let me look on the death of the child."
(2:) And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her,
4: "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
2: Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
1: God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
4 readers - 2 men, 2 women
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
3 = Sarah
4 = God
1: (Isaac) the child (of Sarah and Abraham) grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
2: But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham,
3: "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac."
1: The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to Abraham,
4: "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring."
1: So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away.
2: And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Do not let me look on the death of the child."
(2:) And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her,
4: "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
2: Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
1: God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow. He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
