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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

King James 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 see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.