Genesis 21:18-19

21:18 Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” 21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 44:34

44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”


tn Heb “And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.” The referent (Hagar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”