Page "Book of Genesis" Paragraph 20

Sarah is barren, and tells Abram to take her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as a concubine.

Through Hagar, Abraham becomes the father of Ishmael.

Abraham asks God that Ishmael " might live in Thy sight ," ( that is, be favoured ), but God replies that Sarah will bear a son, who will be named Isaac, through whom the covenant will be established.

At Sarah's insistence Ishmael and his mother Hagar are driven out into the wilderness, but God saves them and promises to make Ishmael a great nation.