Genesis 21

9 Ref And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

10 Ref So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

11 Ref And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

12 Ref But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

13 Ref And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

14 Ref And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

15 Ref And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

16 Ref And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

17 Ref And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

18 Ref Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

19 Ref Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

20 Ref And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

21 Ref And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

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