15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she[a] wept loudly.(A)

17 God heard the voice of the boy, and the[b] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from the place where he is.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:16 LXX reads the boy
  2. Genesis 21:17 Or an

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