21 ⁸ The boy grew and was weaned, and on the day of his weaning Abraham gave a feast. 21 ⁹ Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham laughing at him, 21 ¹⁰ and she said to Abraham, 'Drive out this slave-girl and her son; I will not have this slave-girl's son sharing the inheritance with my son Isaac.' 21 ¹¹ Abraham was vexed at this on his son Ishmael's account, 21 ¹² but God said to him, 'Do not be vexed on account of the boy and the slave-girl. Do what Sarah says, because you shall have descendants through Isaac. 21 ¹³ I will make a great nation of the slave-girl's son too, because he is your own child.' 21 ¹⁴ Abraham rose early in the morning, took some food and a waterskin full of water and gave it to Hagar; he set the child on her shoulder and sent her away, and she went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

21 ¹⁵ When the water in the skin was finished, she thrust the child under a bush, 21 ¹⁶ and went and sat down some way off, about two bowshots away, for she said, 'How can I watch the child die?' So she sat some way off, weeping bitterly. 21 ¹⁷ God heard the child crying, and the Or an angel of God called from heaven to Hagar, 'What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid: God has heard the child crying where you laid him. 21 ¹⁸ Get to your feet, lift the child up and hold him in your arms, because I will make of him a great nation.' 21 ¹⁹ Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well full of water; she went to it, ?lled her waterskin and gave the child a drink. 21 ²⁰ (20-21) God was with the child, and he grew up and lived in the wilderness of Paran. He became an archer, and his mother found him a wife from Egypt. 21 ²¹