8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a large feast on the day Yitshak was weaned.

9 But Sarah noticed that Ishma’el (the son of Hagar the Egyptian who she had given birth to for Abraham) was mocking, 10 so Sarah said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, because that slave woman’s son won’t be inheriting anything along with my son Yitshak.”[ref] 11 Now this stressed out Abraham who also cared for that son, 12 but God told him, “Don’t get distressed because of the boy and your slave woman. Listen to what Sarah’s telling you, because it’s in Yitshak that your descendants will be called yours.[ref] 13 But I’ll also make the descendants of the slave woman’s son into a nation, because he’s also your son.”

14 Abraham got up early the next morning, and got some bread and a skin of water and helped Hagar put them on her shoulder. Then he gave her the child and sent her away, and she left and wandered in the wilderness around Beersheba. 15 But when the water from the skin was gone, she threw the child under one of the bushes, 16 and she went and she went a short distance away (about as far as a bow can shoot an arrow) and sat down there, because she said, “I don’t want to watch my child die.” And as she sat at a distance, she sobbed loudly.

17 Now God heard the boy’s voice, so one of God’s messengers called Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, because God has heard the boy’s voice over there. 18 Get up and get the boy and hold on to him by the hand, because I’ll make his descendants into a great nation.” 19 Then God enabled her to see a well, so she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20 As the boy grew up, God kept watch over him, and he lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow and arrow. 21 He settled in the Paran wilderness, and in due course his mother found an Egyptian girl for him to marry.