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Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, The Lord hath made laughing to me (or The Lord hath made me to laugh), and whoever shall hear (about this) shall laugh with me.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

In Context

5when he was of an hundred years; for Isaac was born in this age of the father. (when he was a hundred years old; for this was the age of his father when Isaac was born.)

7And again she said, Who should hear, and believe to Abraham, (or And she added, For who would have said to Abraham), that Sarah should give sucking to a son, whom she childed to him, (when he is) now an eld man?

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Cross References

Genesis 18:12And (so) she laughed, saying privily, After that I (have) waxed eld, and my lord is eld, shall I give diligence to lust?

Psalms 113:9Which maketh a barren woman dwell in the house; a glad mother of sons. (Who maketh a barren woman, who liveth in her home, into a happy mother of sons.)

Isaiah 49:15Whether a woman may forget her young child, that she have not mercy on the son of her womb? (yea), though she (may) forget, nevertheless I shall not forget thee.

Isaiah 54:1Thou barren, that childest not, praise; thou that childest not, sing praising, and make joy; for why many sons be of the forsaken, more than of her that had [the] husband, saith the Lord. (Thou barren woman, who never gave birth, praise ye; thou who never gave birth, sing praises, and make joy; for many sons and daughters be of the deserted woman, more than of her who had the husband, saith the Lord.)

Luke 1:46And Mary said, My soul magnifieth the Lord,

John 16:21A woman when she beareth (a) child, hath heaviness [or sorrow], for her time is come; but when she hath born a son, now she thinketh not on the pain, for (or because of her) joy, for a man is born into the world.

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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