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Genesis 21:15

Context
NETBible

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

XREF

Ge 21:14; Ex 15:22-25; Ex 17:1-3; 2Ki 3:9; Ps 63:1; Isa 44:12; Jer 14:3

NET © Notes

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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