Genesis 21:1-18 ▼

1 And YHWH visited Sarah as He had said, and YHWH did for Sarah as He had spoken.

2 And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was a son of a hundred years when Isaac his son was born to him.

6 And Sarah said, “God has brought to me laughter; all who hear will laugh with me.”

7 And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne a son in his old age.”

8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking her son.

10 And she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac.”

11 And the matter was very displeasing in the eyes of Abraham, for the cause of his son.

12 And God said to Abraham, “Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the boy or because of your maidservant; all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac your seed will be reckoned.

13 Yet the son of the maidservant I will make into a nation, because he is your seed.”

14 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and he took bread and a skin of water, and he gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the boy; and he sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15 And the water was used up from the skin, and she cast the boy under one of the bushes.

16 And she went and sat down by herself opposite him, as distance of the shot of a bow, for she said, “Do not let me see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has listened to the voice of the boy where he is there.

18 Arise, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”