16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[a] began to sob.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:16 Hebrew; Septuagint the child

16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: 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.

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19 After I strayed,(A)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(B) my breast.
I was ashamed(C) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(D)

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19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

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