The Importance of a Child

Abraham circumcised his son, isaac, being eight days old, as god commanded him. And when sarah was unable to bear abraham a child, she sent him hagar. Hagar immediately got pregnant and gave birth to ishmael. The story picks up from that point here. I suppose one of the purposes, let's say, perhaps the literary purposes, of this story is to exaggerate, for dramatic purposes, the importance of a child....