Genesis 21:9-14

Living Bible

⁹ But when Sarah noticed Ishmael—the son of Abraham and the Egyptian girl Hagar—teasing^[a] Isaac, ¹⁰ she turned upon Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave girl and her son. He is not going to share your property with my son. I won’t have it.”

¹¹ This upset Abraham very much, for after all, Ishmael too was his son.

¹² But God told Abraham, “Don’t be upset over the boy or your slave-girl wife; do as Sarah says, for Isaac is the son through whom my promise will be fulfilled. ¹³ And I will make a nation of the descendants of the slave girl’s son, too, because he also is yours.”

¹⁴ So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food for the journey, and strapped a canteen of water to Hagar’s shoulders and sent her away with their son. She walked out into the wilderness of Beersheba, wandering aimlessly.