Genesis 21
NET
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New English Translation

Genesis 21:15-16

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

16Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, “I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

Read all of Genesis 21

Commentaries on Genesis 21

New English Translation — © 1996-2016 Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C.