The Family of Abraham

28 The sons of Abraham:

Isaac and Ishmael.

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12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[a] will be reckoned.(A)

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  1. Genesis 21:12 Or seed

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham(A) was mocking,(B) 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman(C) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”(D)

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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(A) to Abraham in his old age,(B) at the very time God had promised him.(C) Abraham gave the name Isaac[a](D) to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him,(E) as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old(F) when his son Isaac was born to him.

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  1. Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.

19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son,(A) and you will call him Isaac.[a](B) I will establish my covenant with him(C) as an everlasting covenant(D) for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers.(E) He will be the father of twelve rulers,(F) and I will make him into a great nation.(G) 21 But my covenant(H) I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you(I) by this time next year.”(J)

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  1. Genesis 17:19 Isaac means he laughs.

11 The angel of the Lord(A) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.(B)
You shall name him(C) Ishmael,[a](D)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.(E)
12 He will be a wild donkey(F) of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward[b] all his brothers.(G)

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(H)” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.”(I) 14 That is why the well(J) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(K) it is still there, between Kadesh(L) and Bered.

15 So Hagar(M) bore Abram a son,(N) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(O) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(P) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

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  1. Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
  2. Genesis 16:12 Or live to the east / of
  3. Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
  4. Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.

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