Genesis 21:15

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

Genesis 37:24

37:24 Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; ²  there was no water in it.)

[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.

[37:24]  ² tn The disjunctive clause gives supplemental information that helps the reader or hearer to picture what happened.