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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Genesis 21:15

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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the water was spent, &c.--Ishmael sank exhausted from fatigue and thirst--his mother laid his head under one of the bushes to smell the damp while she herself, unable to witness his distress, sat down at a little distance in hopeless sorrow.
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