Genesis 17:22

And He left off speaking with him, and Elohim went up from Avraham.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21But My Brit (covenant) will I establish with Yitzchak, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at mo'ed hazeh (this set time) next year.

23And Avraham took Yishmael bno, and all that were born in his bais, and all that were bought with his kesef, every zachar among the men of Avrahamʼs bais; and circumcised the basar of their arelah in the very same day, as Elohim had said unto him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:33And Hashem went His way, as soon as He had left communing with Avraham; and Avraham returned unto his makom.

Genesis 35:13And Elohim went up from him in the makom where He talked with him.

Numbers 12:6And He said, Hear now My words: If there be a navi among you, I Hashem will reveal Myself unto him in a mar'ah (vision), and will speak unto him in a chalom.

Judges 6:21Then the Malach Hashem put forth the tip of the staff that was in his yad, and touched the basar and the matzot; and there rose up eish from the rock, and consumed the basar and the matzot. Then the Malach Hashem departed out of his sight.

John 1:18No one has ever seen Hashem. + 1:18 Ex 33:20 It is Elohim the Ben Yachid, + 1:18 who shares the nature of Hashem, the Chochmah Ben Elohim at his side, see very importantly Prov 8:30; 30:4 it is he, the one being in the kheyk (bosom) of HaAv, this one is Hashemʼs definitive midrash (exegesis).

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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