Ishmael

What the Bible says

Genesis 16:15-16

¹⁵And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael. ¹⁶Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.

Genesis 21:14-19

¹⁴So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee. ¹⁵And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there. ¹⁶And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept. ¹⁷And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is. ¹⁸Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great nation. ¹⁹And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

Genesis 21:18, 20-21

¹⁸Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great nation. ²⁰And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer. ²¹And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.