Genesis 21:8-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁸ The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham, laughing at Isaac. ¹⁰ Therefore, she said to Abraham, “Throw out this slave girl^[a] and her son! For the son of this slave will not be heir with my son Isaac.”

¹¹ Abraham was very distressed because of his son. ¹² God said to Abraham, “Do not be so distressed because of the boy and because of your maid.^[b] Listen to everything that Sarah says to you, because the family line of your descendants^[c] will be traced through Isaac. ¹³ I will also make the son of the maid into a nation because he too is your offspring.”

¹⁴ Abraham got up early in the morning. He took bread and a waterskin, which he gave to Hagar, putting it over her shoulder. He sent her away with her child. She set out and wandered in the wilderness near Beersheba. ¹⁵ The water in the skin was used up, and she dragged the child under one of the bushes. ¹⁶ She went and sat down by herself, across from him, at a distance, about a bow shot away, because she said, “Do not let me see the death of the child.” She sat across from him and wept loudly.

¹⁷ God heard the boy’s voice, and the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is. ¹⁸ Get up. Help the boy up, and take him by the hand, because I will make him into a great nation.”

¹⁹ God opened her eyes, and she saw a well with water in it. She went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰ God was with the boy, and as he grew up, he lived in the wilderness and became an archer. ²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.