Genesis 21:15

21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved ¹  the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:19

21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. ²  She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

Genesis 21:14

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ³  some food ⁴  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ⁵  and sent her away. So she went wandering ⁶  aimlessly through the wilderness ⁷  of Beer Sheba.

[21:15]  ¹ tn 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 (WBC), 2:85.

[21:19]  ² tn Heb “And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.” The referent (Hagar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:14]  ³ tn Heb “and Abraham rose up early in the morning and he took.”

[21:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

[21:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “He put upon her shoulder, and the boy [or perhaps, “and with the boy”], and he sent her away.” It is unclear how “and the boy” relates syntactically to what precedes. Perhaps the words should be rearranged and the text read, “and he put [them] on her shoulder and he gave to Hagar the boy.”

[21:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “she went and wandered.”

[21:14]  ⁷ tn Or “desert,” although for English readers this usually connotes a sandy desert like the Sahara rather than the arid wasteland of this region with its sparse vegetation.