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Genesis 21:15 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. "
Genesis 21:15
Verse in Context
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And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: 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.
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad
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Genesis 21:1
"And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken."
Genesis 21:2
"For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken"
Genesis 21:3
"And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac."
Genesis 21:4
"And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him."
Genesis 21:4
"And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded"
Genesis 21:5
"Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place."
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