When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast
the lad under a bush and went and sat her out of sight a great
way, as it were a bowshot off: For she said: I will not see the
lad die. And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and
wept. And God heard the voice of the child. And the angel of God
called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her: What aileth thee
Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the child where
he lieth. Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for
I will make of him a great people. And God opened her eyes and she
saw a well of water. And she went and filled the bottle with
water, and gave the boy drink. And God was with the lad, and he
grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he
dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan. And his mother got him a wife
out of thee, land of Egypt. And it chanced the same season, that
Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying:
God is with thee in all that thou doest. Now therefore swear unto
me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children,
nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and
the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness
that I have shewed thee.
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