Holy Scripture

Genesis 21:15

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 15, 16.) And she put the boy under a tree, and went and sat opposite him, as if shooting an arrow. She said, 'I will not see the death of my child.' And she sat opposite him. And immediately it happened: The boy cried out, and wept, and God heard the voice of the boy from the place where he was. And the Angel o…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Hebrew Questions on Genesis

Source: Septuagint

Original

15And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree.

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13And moreover I will make the son of this bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

14And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.

— Genesis 21:15 —

16And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bowshot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

17And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Hagar? fear not, for God has heard the voice of the child from the place where he is.

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