

( T)ġ5 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. ( S) He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. ( Q) 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation ( R) also, because he is your offspring.”ġ4 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. ( P) 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham ( L) was mocking, ( M) 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman ( N) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” ( O)ġ1 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.

5 Abraham was a hundred years old ( H) when his son Isaac was born to him.Ħ Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, ( I) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” ( J) Hagar and Ishmael Sent AwayĨ The child grew and was weaned, ( K) and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.

4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, ( G) as God commanded him. ( E) 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac ( F) to the son Sarah bore him. ( B) 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son ( C) to Abraham in his old age, ( D) at the very time God had promised him. 21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah ( A) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
