¹⁴Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beersheba. ¹⁵When the water in the container was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. ¹⁶Then she went about as far away as an arrow can be shot and sat down. She said to herself, “I don’t want to watch the boy die.” So she sat down and sobbed loudly.

¹⁷God heard the boy crying, and the Messenger of God called to Hagar from heaven. “What’s the matter, Hagar?” he asked her. “Don’t be afraid! God has heard the boy crying from the bushes. ¹⁸Come on, help the boy up! Take him by the hand, because I’m going to make him into a great nation.”

¹⁹God opened her eyes. Then she saw a well. She filled the container with water and gave the boy a drink.

²⁰God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became a skilled archer. ²¹He lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from Egypt.

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