15 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes 16 and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she[a] wept loudly.(A)

17 God heard the boy crying, and the[b] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:16 LXX reads the boy
  2. 21:17 Or an

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