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Genesis 21:14

Genesis 21:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

am 2112, bc 1892

rose up: , , , ; ; ;

took: ,

child: Or, youth (See note on , and See note on ), as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.

sent:

wandered: , ; ; ;

Beersheba: So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, . Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch , , , ;

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