Water in the Wilderness

15When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the boy under one of the bushes.

16Then she went and sat down opposite him, at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

17And God heard the boy’s voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the boy’s voice where he is.”

18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.

19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.