12. But God said to him, ‘Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
13. I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.’
14. Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
16. Then she went off and sat down about a bow-shot away, for she thought, ‘I cannot watch the boy die.’ And as she sat there, she began to sob.
17. God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, ‘What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.’
19. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
21. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
22. At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, ‘God is with you in everything you do.
23. Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness that I have shown to you.’