Hagar and Ishmael Leave

⁸ The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned. ⁹ Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian—whom Hagar had borne to Abraham—making fun of Isaac,^{[a] 10} she told Abraham, “Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave’s son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!”

¹¹ Abraham was very troubled about what was being said about his son, ¹² but God told Abraham, “Don’t be troubled about the youth and your slave girl. Pay attention to Sarah in everything she tells you, because your offspring are to be named through Isaac. ¹³ Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl’s son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring.”

¹⁴ So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness. ¹⁵ Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes. ¹⁶ Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, “I can’t bear to watch the child die!” That’s why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

The Lord Rescues Hagar and Ishmael

¹⁷ God heard the boy’s voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, “What’s wrong with you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is. ¹⁸ Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants.”^{[b] 19} Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰ God was with the boy as he grew up. He settled in the wilderness and became an expert archer. ²¹ Later he settled in the desert area of Paran, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.