Abram agreed, and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife.  This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.  Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.  Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's all your fault!  I gave you my slave woman, but she has been hateful to me ever since she found out she was pregnant.  You have done me wrong, and you will have to answer to the LORD for this."
Abram said, "All right!  She's your slave, and you can do whatever you want with her."

But Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.  Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur.  While she was there, the angel of the LORD came to her 8and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?"
She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."

Hagar and Ishmael Are Sent Away
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.  I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help.  And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.  But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him."
Hagar thought, "Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?"
So from then on she called him, "The God Who Sees Me."
That's why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered, "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me."

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to their son, and he named him Ishmael.

One day, Sarah noticed Hagar's son Ishmael playing, and she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that Egyptian slave woman and her son! I don't want him to inherit anything. It should all go to my son."
Abraham was worried about Ishmael.  But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy.  Just do what Sarah tells you.  Isaac will inherit your family name, but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation."

Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread.  Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away.

They wandered around in the desert near Beersheba, and after they had run out of water, Hagar put her son under a bush.  Then she sat down a long way off, because she could not bear to watch him die. And she cried bitterly.

When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, "Hagar, why are you worried?  Don't be afraid.  I have heard your son crying.  Help him up and hold his hand, because I will make him the father of a great nation."

Then God let her see a well.  So she went to the well and filled the skin with water, then gave some to her son.

God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows.  He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.