Genesis 21:7

And she said, Who would have said unto Avraham, that Sarah should nurse banim? for I have borne him ben in his old age.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

6And she said, Elohim hath brought me tzechok (laughter), so that all that hear yitzchak (will laugh) with me.

8And the yeled grew, and was weaned; and Avraham made a mishteh gadol the same day that Yitzchak was weaned.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11Now Avraham and Sarah were zekenim (old ones) and well stricken in age; and [in childbearing] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the yamim that are past, which were before thee, since the yom that Elohim bara man upon Ha'Aretz, and ask from the one side of Shomayim unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

1 Kings 11:20And the achot of Tachpeneis bore him Genuvat bno, whom Tachpeneis weaned in Bais Pharaoh; and Genuvat was in Bais Pharaoh among the Bnei Pharaoh.

Psalms 86:10For Thou art gadol, and doest nifla'ot (wondrous things); 1 Thou alone art Elohim. 1

Isaiah 66:8Who hath heard such a thing? 1 Who hath seen such things? 1 Shall Eretz be born in yom echad? 1 Or shall a nation be born in a moment? 1 For as soon as Tziyon travailed in labor, 1 she gave birth to her banim. 1

2 Thessalonians 1:10When He comes to be glorified among His Kedoshim and to be marveled at among all the ma'aminim + 1:10 in Moshiach in YOM HAHU + 1:10 Isa 2:11 (that Day), because our [martyrʼs] eidus + 1:10 The word can mean witness al kiddush ha-Shem to you was believed.

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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