Genesis 21:8-21 — Legacy Standard Bible

Sarah Sends Hagar Away

⁸And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹And Sarah saw ^athe son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, ¹^,^blaughing in jest. ¹⁰Therefore she said to Abraham, “^aDrive out this maidservant and her son! The son of this maidservant shall not be an heir with my son, with Isaac.” ¹¹^aAnd the matter ¹distressed Abraham greatly because of his son. ¹²So God said to Abraham, “¹Do not be distressed because of the boy and your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice, for ^athrough Isaac your seed shall be named. ¹³“And of ^athe son of the maidservant I will make a nation also, because he is your seed.” ¹⁴So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a ¹skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵When the water in the skin was finished, she ¹put the child under one of the bushes. ¹⁶Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me ¹see when the child dies.” And she sat opposite him and ^alifted up her voice and wept. ¹⁷Then God ^aheard the voice of the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? ^bDo not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. ¹⁸“Arise, lift up the boy, and hold him by ¹the hand, ^afor I will make a great nation of him.” ¹⁹Then God ^aopened her eyes, and she saw ^ba well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

²⁰^aAnd God was with the boy, and he grew; and he ¹lived in the wilderness and was an archer. ²¹^aAnd he ¹lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.