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Genesis 21:6-8
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 21:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 Sarah said, “God has given me a reason to laugh out loud. All will smile because of me.” 7 She then said, “Who would have ever said to Abraham, ‘Sarah will nurse sons’? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Ishmael Is Sent Away.[a] 8 Isaac grew and was weaned. On the day that he was weaned, Abraham threw a great banquet.
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- Genesis 21:8 The two stories that follow are from the Elohist tradition. According to a number of critics, the first story is another version of the Yahwist-Priestly story in 16:4-16. It is to be noted, among other things, that Ishmael is here shown as a boy, while at the period here indicated he would have been an adolescent.
St. Paul uses the incident as an argument that the new Covenant replaces the old (Gal 4:21-31).
