Jubilees 17:1-18

¹And in the first year of the fifth week Isaac was weaned in this jubilee, [1982 A.M.] and Abraham made a great banquet in the third month, on the day his son Isaac was weaned.

²And Ishmael, the son of Hagar the Egyptian, stood before the face of Abraham his father, in his place, and Abraham rejoiced and blessed God because he had seen his sons and had not died childless.

³And he remembered the words which He had spoken to him on the day Lot parted from him, and he rejoiced because the Lord had given him offspring upon the earth to inherit the earth, and he blessed the Creator of all things with all his mouth.

⁴And Sarah saw Ishmael playing and dancing, and Abraham rejoicing with great joy, and she became jealous of Ishmael and said to Abraham, 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman will not be heir with my son Isaac.'

⁵And the matter was grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his maidservant and because of his son, that he should drive them from him.

⁶And God said to Abraham, 'Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the child and because of the bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her words and do them; for in Isaac shall your name and offspring be called.

⁷But as for the son of this bondwoman, I will make him a great nation, because he is of your offspring.' And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and placed them on the shoulders of Hagar and the child, and sent her away.

⁸And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba, and the water in the bottle was used up, and the child was thirsty, and was not able to go on, and fell down.

⁹And his mother took him and cast him under an olive tree, and went and sat down opposite him, at the distance of a bow-shot; for she said, 'Let me not see the death of my child,' and as she sat she wept.

¹⁰And an angel of God, one of the holy ones, said to her, 'Why do you weep, Hagar? Arise, take the child, and hold him in your hand; for God has heard your voice, and has seen the child.'

¹¹And she opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled her bottle with water, and she gave her child to drink, and she arose and went toward the wilderness of Paran.

¹²And the child grew and became an archer, and God was with him, and his mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt.

¹³And she bore him a son, and he called his name Nebaioth; for she said, 'The Lord was near to me when I called upon him.'

¹⁴And it came to pass in the seventh week, in the first year of it, [2003 A.M.] in the first month in this jubilee, on the twelfth of this month, there were voices in heaven regarding Abraham, that he was faithful in all that He told him, and that he loved the Lord, and that in every affliction he was faithful.

¹⁵And the prince Mastema came and said before God, 'Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he delights in him above all things else; command him to offer him as a burnt-offering on the altar, and You will see if he will carry out this command, and You will know if he is faithful in everything in which You try him.'

¹⁶And the Lord knew that Abraham was faithful in all his afflictions; for He had tried him through his country and with famine, and had tried him with the wealth of kings, and had tried him again through his wife, when she was taken from him, and with circumcision; and had tried him through Ishmael and Hagar, his maidservant, when he sent them away.

¹⁷And in everything in which He had tried him, he was found faithful, and his soul was not impatient, and he was not slow to act; for he was faithful and a lover of the Lord.

¹⁸And in everything in which He had tried him, he was found faithful, and his soul was not impatient, and he was not slow to act; for he was faithful and a lover of the Lord.