Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

⁸The child grew, and on the day Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a great feast. ⁹Sarah noticed that the son Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking. ¹⁰So she told Abraham, "Send this slave woman and her son away, because the son of this slave woman will not share the inheritance with my son Isaac." ¹¹This deeply troubled Abraham because it concerned his son. ¹²But God told Abraham, "Do not be troubled over the boy or your slave woman. Listen to everything Sarah tells you, because your descendants will be traced through Isaac." ¹³"I will also make the slave woman's son into a nation, because he is your offspring." ¹⁴Abraham got up early the next morning, took some bread and a container of water, and placed them on Hagar's shoulder. He gave her the child and sent her on her way. She left and roamed through the wilderness of Beersheba. ¹⁵When the water in the container ran out, she placed the child beneath one of the bushes. ¹⁶Then she walked away and sat down at a distance, about as far as an arrow flies, because she said, "I cannot watch the child die." Sitting there across from him, she began to cry aloud. ¹⁷God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven, saying, "What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice right where he is." ¹⁸"Get up, pick up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation." ¹⁹Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went over, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. ²¹He settled in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.