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Genesis 21:15

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21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved 1  the child under one of the shrubs.

1 tn Heb “threw,” but the child, who was now thirteen years old, would not have been carried, let alone thrown under a bush. The exaggerated language suggests Ishmael is limp from dehydration and is being abandoned to die. See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 2:85.



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