11. This troubled Abraham very much because Ishmael was also his son.
12. But God said to Abraham, “Don’t be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.
13. I will also make the descendants of Ishmael into a great nation. I will do this because he is your son, too.”
14. Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a leather bag full of water. He gave them to Hagar and sent her away. Hagar carried these things and her son. She went and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
15. Later, all the water was gone from the bag. So Hagar put her son under a bush.