Genesis 21:7

Everyone was saying I would remain forever without a child for Abraham. Now I have given birth to a child for him after he is old.”

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In The King James Version

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

In Context

6Sarah was very happy, she laughed, “God made me happy. Others when they hear will be happy, they also will laugh.

8The child became big, he left the breast. After that Abraham told his workers to cook a lot of food for many people. After that they all came to Abraham's camp, they were eating that food, they were happy.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11She laughed to herself, she said to herself, “I am old, my husband also is old. I am very old, I cannot have a child.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9

The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →

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