14 So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a [a]skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15 When the water in the skin was used up, she [b]left the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not [c]see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and (A)raised her voice and wept.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:14 I.e., a skin used as a bottle
  2. Genesis 21:15 Lit cast
  3. Genesis 21:16 Lit look at the death of the child

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