Genesis Chapter 21 verse 15 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 21:15

And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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BBE Genesis 21:15

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
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DARBY Genesis 21:15

And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,
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KJV Genesis 21:15

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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WBT Genesis 21:15

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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WEB Genesis 21:15

The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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YLT Genesis 21:15

and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she placeth the lad under one of the shrubs.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - And the water was spent in (literally, from) the bottle, - so that the wanderers became exhausted, and were in danger of fainting through thirst - and she cast the child - a translation which certainly conveys an erroneous impression, first of Ishmael, who was not an infant, but a grown lad (vide supra, Ver. 14), and secondly of Ishmael's mother, whom it represents as acting with violence, if not with inhumanity; whereas the sense probably is that, having, as long as her rapidly diminishing strength permitted, supported her fainting son, she at length suddenly, through feebleness, released his nerveless hand as he fell, and in despair, finding herself unable to give him further assistance, left him, as she believed, to die where he had flung himself in his intolerable anguish - under one of the shrubs.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) She cast the child under one of the shrubs.--The act was one of despair. Ishmael, though seventeen years of age, had not yet come to his strength, and at a time when human life was so prolonged that forty was the usual age for marriage, was probably not as capable of bearing fatigue as a young man nearly grown up would be in our days. He thus became exhausted, and apparently fainted; and his mother, after trying in vain to support him, cast him down in anguish, and abandoned herself to her grief.