Genesis 21:14-20 ▼

14 So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness.

15 Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.

16 Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, |I can't bear to watch the child die!| That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

17 God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, |What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

18 Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants.|

19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.

20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He settled in the wilderness and became an expert archer.