9. Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing with her son Isaac;
10. so she demanded of Abraham: “Drive out that slave and her son! No son of that slave is going to share the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
11. Abraham was greatly distressed because it concerned a son of his.
12. But God said to Abraham: Do not be distressed about the boy or about your slave woman. Obey Sarah, no matter what she asks of you; for it is through Isaac that descendants will bear your name.
13. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, since he too is your offspring.
14. Early the next morning Abraham got some bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Then, placing the child on her back, he sent her away. As she roamed aimlessly in the wilderness of Beer-sheba,
15. the water in the skin was used up. So she put the child down under one of the bushes,
16. and then went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away; for she said to herself, “I cannot watch the child die.” As she sat opposite him, she wept aloud.