Genesis 21:15

15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.

Genesis 21:15 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
English Standard Version (ESV)
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.
New Living Translation (NLT)
15 When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.
The Message Bible (MSG)
15 When the water was gone, she left the child under a shrub
American Standard Version (ASV)
15 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
15 When the water in the container was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
15 When the water in the bottle was gone, she put the boy under a bush.

Genesis 21:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 21:15

And the water was spent in the bottle
It was all drank up by them, being thirsty, having wandered about some time in a wilderness, where they could not replenish their bottle: the Jewish writers say F5 that when Hagar came into the wilderness, she began to wander after the idols of the house of Pharaoh her father, and immediately the water ceased from the bottle, or was drank up by Ishmael, being seized with a burning fever:

and she cast the child under one of the shrubs;
not from off her shoulder, but out of her hand or bosom; being faint through thirst, he was not able to walk, and she, being weary in dragging him along in her hand, perhaps sat down and held him in her lap, and laid him in her bosom; but, imagining he was near his end, she laid him under one of the shrubs in the wilderness, to screen him from the scorching sun, and there left him; the Greek version is, "under one of the fir trees", and so says Josephus F6: some Jewish writers F7 call them juniper trees; and some make this to be Ishmael's own act, and say, that, being fatigued with thirst, he went and threw himself under the nettles of the wilderness F8, see ( Job 30:7 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F5 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 30.) Targ. Jon. in loc.
F6 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 12. sect. 3.
F7 Bereshit, ut supra. (sect. 53. fol. 47. 4.)
F8 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 30.)

Genesis 21:15 In-Context

13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
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 began to sob.
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
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