Genesis 21:14

14. A bottle of water A bottle made of skin . “The Arabs, and all that lead a wandering life, keep their water, milk, and other liquors in leathern bottles . These are made of goat-skins . When the animal is killed, they cut off its feet and its head, and they draw it in this manner out of the skin, without opening its belly . In Arabia they are tanned with acacia-bark and the hairy part left outside . If not tanned, a disagreeable taste is imparted to the water . They afterwards sew up the places where the legs were cut off, and the tail, and when it is filled they tie it about the neck . ” SMITH’S Dict . of Bible .

Wilderness of Beer-sheba The name Beer-sheba is, perhaps, used here proleptically . See on Genesis 21:31.