Genesis 17:22

And when he had left off talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

In Context

21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

23And Abraham now took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the selfsame day, as God had spoken unto him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:33And the Lord went away, when he had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place.

Genesis 35:13And God went up from him on the place where he had spoken with him.

Numbers 12:6And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet of your kind, I, the Lord, do make myself known unto him in a vision, in a dream do I speak with him.

Judges 6:21Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:16-23

15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!… Read the whole commentary →

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