16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[a] began to sob.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:16 Hebrew; Septuagint the child

16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

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20 God was with the boy(A) as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

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20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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