Genesis 21:1-21.

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Genesis 21:1-21 (Good News Translation)

1 "The LORD blessed Sarah, as he had promised, 2 and she became
pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born
at the time God had said he would be born. 3 Abraham named him Isaac,
4 and when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God
had commanded. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born.
6 Sarah said, "God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears
about it will laugh with me. " 7 Then she added, "Who would have said
to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son
in his old age." 8 The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned,
Abraham gave a great feast. 9 One day Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian
had borne to Abraham, was playing with Sarah's son Isaac. 10 Sarah saw
them and said to Abraham, "Send this slave and her son away. The son
of this woman must not get any part of your wealth, which my son Isaac
should inherit." 11 This troubled Abraham very much, because Ishmael
also was his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, "Don't be worried about
the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it
is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.
13 I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so
that they will become a nation. He too is your son. " 14 Early the
next morning Abraham gave Hagar some food and a leather bag full of
water. He put the child on her back and sent her away. She left and
wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 When the water was
all gone, she left the child under a bush 16 and sat down about a
hundred yards away. She said to herself, "I can't bear to see my child
die." While she was sitting there, she began to cry. 17 God heard the
boy crying, and from heaven the angel of God spoke to Hagar, "What are
you troubled about, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy
crying. 18 Get up, go and pick him up, and comfort him. I will make a
great nation out of his descendants. " 19 Then God opened her eyes,
and she saw a well. She went and filled the leather bag with water and
gave some to the boy. 20 God was with the boy as he grew up; he lived
in the wilderness of Paran and became a skillful hunter. 21 His mother
got an Egyptian wife for him."

God bless you.

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