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  • bread - This may have referred to food in general (as in the UDB) or specifically to bread.
  • a skin of water - "a bag of water." The water container was made out of animal skin.
  • When the water in the waterskin was gone - This can be translated as "when the water bag was empty"
  • about the distance of a bowshot away - This refers to the distance that a person could shoot an arrow with a bow. This is about 100 meters.
  • Let me not look upon the death of the child - "I do not want to watch the boy die"
  • she lifted up her voice and wept - "she cried out loudly and wept" or "she wept loudly"