8. The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great banquet on the day of the child’s weaning.
9. Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing with her son Isaac;
10. so she demanded of Abraham: “Drive out that slave and her son! No son of that slave is going to share the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
11. Abraham was greatly distressed because it concerned a son of his.
12. But God said to Abraham: Do not be distressed about the boy or about your slave woman. Obey Sarah, no matter what she asks of you; for it is through Isaac that descendants will bear your name.
13. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, since he too is your offspring.
14. Early the next morning Abraham got some bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Then, placing the child on her back, he sent her away. As she roamed aimlessly in the wilderness of Beer-sheba,
15. the water in the skin was used up. So she put the child down under one of the bushes,
16. and then went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away; for she said to herself, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.
17. God heard the boy’s voice, and God’s angel called to Hagar from heaven: “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not fear; God has heard the boy’s voice in this plight of his.
18. Get up, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand; for I will make of him a great nation.”
19. Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and then let the boy drink.
20. God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert bowman.
21. He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22. At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham: “God is with you in everything you do.
23. So now, swear to me by God at this place that you will not deal falsely with me or with my progeny and posterity, but will act as loyally toward me and the land in which you reside as I have acted toward you.”