Genesis 21:6-21

6Sarah said, “God has made 1laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh 2with me.” 7And she said, “3Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age.”

8And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9Now Sarah saw 4the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, 5mocking Isaac. 10Therefore she said to Abraham, “6Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be an heir with my son 7Isaac!” 118The matter 9distressed Abraham greatly because of his son Ishmael. 12But God said to Abraham, “10Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for 11through Isaac 12your descendants shall be named. 13And of 13the son of the slave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your 14descendant.” 14So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a 15skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15When the water in the skin was used up, she 16left the boy under one of the bushes. 16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not 17see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and 18raised her voice and wept. 17God 19heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “20What is the matter with you, Hagar? 21Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him by 22the hand, 23for I will make a great nation of him.” 19Then God 24opened her eyes, and she saw 25a well of water; and she went and filled the 26skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20And 27God was with the boy, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 2128He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.