Genesis 21:13-15

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¹³And I will make a nation of the son of the bondwoman also, because he is your offspring.

¹⁴So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulders, and he sent her and the ^[a]youth away. And she wandered on [aimlessly] and lost her way in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵When the water in the bottle was all gone, Hagar caused the youth to lie down under one of the shrubs.

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Footnotes

Genesis 21:14 Ishmael was born when Abraham was eighty-six years old (Gen. 16:16), so Ishmael was fourteen when Isaac was born. Isaac was weaned (Gen. 21:8) at least three years later probably (II Chron. 31:16; II Maccabees 7:27).