Jubilees

In the first year of the fifth week of this jubilee, Isaac was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast in the third month, on the day when his son Isaac was weaned.

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

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

And Sarah saw Ishmael playing and dancing, and Abraham rejoicing with great joy, and she became jealous of Ishmael and said to Abraham: "Expel this maidservant and her son, because the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

And the thing was grievous in the eyes of Abraham, because of his maidservant and because of his son, so that he sent them away from him.

And God said to Abraham: "Do not let this be grievous in your eyes, because of the son and because of the maidservant; in everything that Sarah has said to you, listen to her words and do them; because in Isaac shall your name be called.

But as for the son of this maidservant, I will make him a great nation, because he is your descendant."

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and placed them on Hagar's shoulders and on the child, and sent them away.

And she departed and went wandering in the wilderness of Beersheba, and the water in the bottle was finished, and the child was thirsty, and was unable to proceed, and fell.

And his mother took him and laid him under an olive tree, and went and sat down facing him, at a bowshot distance; and she said: "Do not let me see the death of my son." and as she sat down she wept.

And 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 hands; because God has heard your voice, and seen the child."

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

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

And she bore a son, and he called him by the name of Nebaioth; because she said: "The Lord was near to me when I called upon Him."

And it came to pass in the seventh week, in the first year, in the first month of this jubilee, on the twelfth of this month, there were voices in heaven concerning Abraham, that he was faithful in everything He said to him, and that he loved the Lord, and that in every affliction he was faithful.

And the Prince Mastema came and said before God, "Behold, Abraham loves Isaac his son, and he rejoices in him above everything else; ask him to offer him as a burnt offering on the altar, and You will see if he will obey this command, and You will know if he is faithful in everything in which You test him.

The Lord knew that Abraham was faithful in all his afflictions; because He had tested him through his land and with famine, and had tested him with the wealth of kings, and had tested him again through his wife, when she was taken, and with circumcision; and had tested him through Ishmael and Hagar, his maidservant, when he sent them away.

And in everything in which He had tested him, he had been faithful, and his soul was not impatient, and he did not delay to act; because he was faithful and loved God.