1
When Ishmael had returned from the land of Egypt, I went as was my custom to stay with my wife Hagar and my son Ishmael.
2
And when Ishmael was away hunting, his wife Meribah spake disrespectfully to me and complained of my being in their tents.
3
Moreover, she abused her children and when I chastised her for this thing, she rose up in anger against me.
4
My wife Hagar saw all these things, and when her son Ishmael had returned from the hunt, she complained unto him of the actions of Meribah toward me.
5
And Ishmael came unto me and said, My father, what shall I do with such a wife who abuseth my father and my children and speaketh evil of me, for she had spoken against her husband Ishmael also.
6
And I said unto him, Such an one is not fit to be thy wife nor the mother of thy children nor to dwell in thy tents; wherefore, give her a bill of divorcement and send her back to the home of her father in shame and find another more worthy than she to be thy wife and the mother of these children.
7
So Ishmael gave unto Meribah a bill of divorcement and sent her back to her father Phanes in the land of Egypt and his mother Hagar raised his children until he took another wife.