Genesis 17:22

and He finishes speaking with him, and God goes up from Abraham.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year”;

23And Abraham takes his son Ishmael, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of Abraham’s house and circumcises the flesh of their foreskin, in this very same day, as God has spoken with him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:33And YHWH goes on, when He has finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham has turned back to his place.

Genesis 35:13And God goes up from him, in the place where He has spoken with him.

Numbers 12:6And He says, “Now hear My words: If your prophet is of YHWH, || I make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

Judges 6:21And the Messenger of YHWH puts forth the end of the staff which [is] in His hand, and comes against the flesh, and against the unleavened things, and the fire goes up out of the rock and consumes the flesh and the unleavened things—and the Messenger of YHWH has gone from his eyes.

John 1:18No one has ever seen God; the only begotten God who is on the bosom of the Father—He has expounded [Him].

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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