Kejadian 21:16

21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot ¹  away; for she thought, ²  “I refuse to watch the child die.” ³  So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. ⁴ 

Kejadian 37:25

37:25 When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up ⁵  and saw ⁶  a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt. ⁷ 

Kejadian 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ⁸  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

[21:16]  ¹ sn A bowshot would be a distance of about a hundred yards (ninety meters).

[21:16]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[21:16]  ³ tn Heb “I will not look on the death of the child.” The cohortative verbal form (note the negative particle אַל,’al) here expresses her resolve to avoid the stated action.

[21:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “and she lifted up her voice and wept” (that is, she wept uncontrollably). The LXX reads “he” (referring to Ishmael) rather than “she” (referring to Hagar), but this is probably an attempt to harmonize this verse with the following one, which refers to the boy’s cries.

[37:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted up their eyes.”

[37:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they saw and look.” By the use of וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and look”), the narrator invites the reader to see the event through the eyes of the brothers.

[37:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh, going to go down to Egypt.”

[45:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”