⁴ He slept with Hagar,^(A) and she conceived.

When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.^{(B) 5} Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”^(C)

⁶ “Your slave is in your hands,^(D)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated^(E) Hagar; so she fled from her.

⁹ But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham^(A) was mocking,^{(B) 10} and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman^(C) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”^(D)

¹¹ The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.^{(E) 12} But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring^[a] will be reckoned.^{(F) 13} I will make the son of the slave into a nation^(G) also, because he is your offspring.”

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.^(H) He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.^(I)