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Genesis 21:16

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 16 Then she went on and sat down by herself, about the distance of a bowshot away, because she said: “I do not want to watch the boy die.” So she sat down at a distance and began to cry aloud and to weep.

Genesis 21:16

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 16 Then she went on and sat down by herself, about the distance of a bowshot away, because she said: “I do not want to watch the boy die.” So she sat down at a distance and began to cry aloud and to weep.

Genesis 21:16

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 16 Then she went on and sat down by herself, about the distance of a bowshot away, because she said: “Let me not see it when the child dies.”+ So she sat down at a distance and began to raise her voice and weep.*+

Genesis 21:16

The Bible in Living English
- 16 * and went away and sat opposite him at the distance of an archer’s range, because she thought “I do not want to look on at the child’s death”; and she sat down opposite, and raised her voice and sobbed.

Genesis 21:16

American Standard Version
- 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Genesis 21:16

The Emphasized Bible
- 16 and went and sat her down over against him, at a distance like as of such as draw the bow, for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child,—So she sat down over against him, and the boy lifted up his voice and wept.