Genesis 21:1-14 ▼

1 Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised.

2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

3 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Sarah said, |God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.|

7 And she said, |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 was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10 Therefore she said to Abraham, |Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.|

11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.

12 But God said to Abraham, |Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.

13 |And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant.|

14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave [them] to Hagar, putting [them] on her shoulder, and [gave her] the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.