Genesis 21:9-21

9But Sarah saw the son mocking — the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

10So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”

11This was very distressing to Abraham because of his son.

12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

13and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”

14Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes

16and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she wept loudly.

17God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

18Get up, help the boy up, and grasp his hand, for I will make him a great nation.”

19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

20God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

21He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.