13 “Yet I will also make a
nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.”
14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and
a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to
Hagar, and sent her away. Then she
departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the
boy under one of the shrubs.
16 Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance
of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the
boy.” So she sat opposite him, and
lifted her voice and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of
heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar?
Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 “Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for
I will make him a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water. And she went and filled the skin
with water, and gave the lad a drink.
20 So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
21 He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took
a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
22 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and
Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you
in all that you do.”
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