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Genesis 21:15

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21:15When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved29 the child under one of the shrubs.

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  1. 29 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 (), 2:.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.