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The Birth of Isaac

21 And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised. And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him. And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me.” And she said, “Who would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age.”

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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