13. Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the slave woman, because he is your offspring.”
14. So Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her away with the child. So she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
15. When the water in the skin was gone, she placed the child 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 child.” She sat across from him, and lifted up her voice and wept.
17. And God heard the boy’s voice. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18. Arise, pick up the boy and hold him in your hands, 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 boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy; and he grew and lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21. He lived in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22. Now it came to pass at that time that Abimelek and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23. Now therefore, swear to me by God that you will not deal deceitfully with me, or with my children, or with my descendants. Instead, according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you will show to me and to the land where you have lived.”
24. Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25. Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had violently seized.
26. And Abimelek said, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”