Genesis 21:16 meaning and explanation
Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Genesis 21:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, has been sent into the wilderness of Beersheba with her son Ishmael and only bread and a skin of water. When the water runs out, she places the boy under a bush and moves about a bowshot away, the distance an arrow flies.
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