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But when Sarah noticed Ishmael—the son of Abraham and the Egyptian girl Hagar—teasing[a] Isaac, 10 she turned upon Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave girl and her son. He is not going to share your property with my son. I won’t have it.”

11 This upset Abraham very much, for after all, Ishmael too was his son.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:9 teasing, or “mocking,” whether in innocent fun or otherwise is not clear in the text.

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