Genesis 21:1-14 ▼

1 The LORD came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

2 Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

3 Abraham named his son who was born to him Isaac—the very one whom Sarah bore for him!

4 On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Now Sarah had said, |God has caused me to laugh, and all who hear about it will laugh with me.|

7 She also said, |Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!|

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,

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.