Genesis 21:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:9 : 9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
  • Exod 15:22-25 : 22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah. 24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink? 25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;
  • Exod 17:1-3 : 1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. 2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test? 3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
  • Isa 44:12 : 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

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    13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

    14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

  • Gen 21:16-20
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    16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

    17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

    18 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

    19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

    20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

  • Gen 16:6-8
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    6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

    7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

    8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

  • Gen 21:7-11
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    7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

    8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

    9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

    11 And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

  • Gen 16:14-15
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    14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

  • Gen 24:18-20
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    18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

    19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

    20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

  • Gen 16:11
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    11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

  • Judg 4:19
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    19 Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.

  • Gen 24:45-46
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    45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

    46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:

  • Gen 16:1
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

  • Gen 16:4
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    4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

  • Gen 24:14-15
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    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

    15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20 And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

  • Hos 2:3
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    3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

  • Ezek 19:13
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    13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.

  • Gen 24:43
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    43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

  • Gen 37:24
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    24 And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it.