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Isaac is Born

21 The Lord came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

Abraham named his son who was born to him Isaac—the very one whom Sarah bore for him! On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born,[a] Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him. Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Now Sarah had said, “God has caused me to laugh,[b] and all who hear about it[c] will laugh with me.” She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband’s[d] old age!”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:4 Lit. Isaac was a son of eight days when
  2. Genesis 21:6 The Heb. name Isaac means laughter
  3. Genesis 21:6 The Heb. lacks about it
  4. Genesis 21:7 Lit. in his