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Genesis 21:7

She also said, “Nobody reckoned that I can ever have a kid. But look, now Abraham is old, and I had a son for him.”

Plain English Version

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 said, “God is giving me something to laugh about now, and everyone that hears this story will be happy with me, and they will laugh too.”

8When Isaac was about 3 years old, he stopped drinking Sarah’s milk, and Abraham gave him a big party.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11Abraham and Sarah were both very old. She knew she was too old to have a baby,

2 Thessalonians 1:10All that will happen on the day when Jesus will come back to the earth. His own people will show what great things he has done for them, and they will really respect him. And you are his people, so you will be there when he comes back. You believed what we told you about Jesus, so you will be in that mob of his people.

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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