Genesis 21:15 meaning and explanation

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Genesis 21:15, Berean Standard Bible

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Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, has been sent into the Wilderness of Beersheba by Abraham with only bread and a skin of water, after Sarah insisted that Ishmael not share Isaac's inheritance. Here the water runs out, and Hagar leaves her son under a bush, expecting him to die.

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