Genesis 21:14 meaning and explanation
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:14, Berean Standard Bible
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God had told Abraham to listen to Sarah and send Hagar and Ishmael away, promising that Ishmael too would become a nation (verses 12 and 13). So Abraham obeys at daybreak, giving the mother bread and a skin of water and sending her into the Wilderness of Beersheba, the arid region south of Canaan.
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