1 MOSEBOG 21:16

og gik hen og satte sig i omtrent et Pileskuds Afstand derfra, idet hun sagde ved sig selv: “Jeg kan ikke udholde at se Drengen dø!” Og således sad hun, medens Drengen græd højt.

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.