Given by: God to Abraham, in the crisis over Sarah's demand that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away — recounted by the angel of the presence to Moses on Sinai. Given to: a father whose heart was breaking in two directions at once.

In a household of the ancient Near East, sending away a secondary wife and her son touched inheritance, honour and survival at once; the text does not sanitise the pain — it records God meeting a real domestic crisis with promises for both boys.

And God said to Abraham 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the child and because of the bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, harken to her words and do (them); for in Isaac shall thy name and seed be called. But as for the son of this bondwoman I will make him a great nation, because he is of thy seed.'

When sending Ishmael away grieved Abraham, God answered: let it not be grievous — in Isaac shall your seed be called, and the bondwoman's son I will make a great nation.

Jubilees 17:6-7

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