Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Surrexit itaque Abraham mane, et tollens panem et utrem aquæ, imposuit scapulæ ejus, tradiditque puerum, et dimisit eam. Quæ cum abiisset, errabat in solitudine Bersabee.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνέστη δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τὸ πρωί, καὶ ἔλαβεν ἄρτους καὶ ἀσκὸν ὕδατος καὶ ἔδωκεν Ἁγάρ· καὶ ἐπέθηκεν ἐπὶ τὸν ὦμον καὶ τὸ παιδίον, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτήν· ἀπελθοῦσα δὲ ἐπλανᾶτο τὴν ἔρημον, κατὰ τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ ὅρκου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֣ם אַבְרָהָ֣ם בַּבֹּ֡קֶר וַיִּֽקַּֽח לֶחֶם֩ וְחֵ֨מַת מַ֜יִם וַיִּתֵּ֣ן אֶל הָ֠גָר שָׂ֧ם עַל שִׁכְמָ֛הּ וְאֶת הַיֶּ֖לֶד וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֶ֑הָ וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ וַתֵּ֔תַע בְּמִדְבַּ֖ר בְּאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע
Haydock's commentary
Bread and water. This seems a very slender allowance to be given by a man of Abraham's riches. But he might intend her to go only into the neighbourhood, where he would take care to provide for her. She lost herself in the wilderness, and thus fell into imminent danger of perishing. (Haydock)
This divorce of Agar, and ejection of Ismael, prefigured the reprobation of the Jews.
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.