The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, “I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.