Not so bad idea at all. Verse 14 is an old crux interpretum in object matter an dsyntax.
I know that no one will agree with this next idea, but just for fun I think it is interesting that the
words "Hagar" and"there" could be combined into "their being driven out"
(niphal infinitive?) in Genesis 21:14.
It could say "and he (Abraham) gave to their being driven out her shoulder yoke
and the boy's spade (alef tav)." So he could have given her food, water, a
shoulder yoke, and her son's spade. I know people don't like to regroup the letters,
but in this case it is interesting that the recombined letters fit the situation a
little bit.
Kenneth Greifer
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