Isaac

21 The Lord remembered what he had told Sarah, and he did as he had promised. 2 So Sarah had Abraham’s son in his old age at the fixed time of which God had told him. 3 Abraham named him Isaac[fn] 4 and when he was eight days old he circumcised him as God had told him to. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. 6 Sarah said, ‘God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.’ 7 She added, ‘Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have born him a son in his old age.’

8 When the child grew up, Abraham made a great feast on the day that he was weaned. 9 But Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. 10 She said to Abraham, ‘Drive out this slave-girl and her son, for the son of this slave-girl shall not be heir with my son Isaac’ 11 This request was very displeasing to Abraham because the boy was his son. 12 But the Lord said to Abraham, ‘Do not be displeased because of the boy and because of your slave-girl. Listen to all that Sarah says to you, for only through the line of Isaac will your name be perpetuated. 13 But I will also make of the son of the slave-girl a great nation, because he is your son.’

14 Then Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, and he put the boy upon her shoulder and sent her away. So she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the child under one of the desert shrubs 16 and went a short distance away and sat down and said, ‘Let me not see the death of the child.’ So she sat there and wept.

17 Then the Lord heard the cry of the boy, and the messenger of the Lord called to Hagar from heaven and said, ‘What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for the Lord has heard the boy’s cry. 18 Rise, lift him up, and hold him fast by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.’ 19 The Lord opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. Then she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20 The Lord was with the boy, and he grew up, 21 and lived in the wilderness of Paran, and became a bowman. His mother secured a wife for him from Egypt.