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A Bowshot Away
Cast out at dawn with three loaves and a skin of water, Hagar walks her son into the wilderness of Beersheba — and when the water runs out, she sets him under a shrub and walks away as far as an arrow flies.
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The Ford at Jabbok
On the night before he meets the brother he cheated, Jacob sends his family across the Jabbok and stays behind alone. In the dark, a stranger lays hold of him, and they wrestle until the river fills with light.