They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

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

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.