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Text -- Genesis 21:1-6 (NET)
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The Birth of Isaac
21:1 The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised .
21:2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
21:3 Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac .
21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old , Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.
21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)
21:6 Sarah said , “God has made me laugh . Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Isaac |
Abraham |
Circumcision |
Conception |
Sarah |
NAMES, PROPER |
Children |
Ishmael |
Obedience |
Quotations and Allusions |
Miracles |
Thankfulness |
God |
HAGAR |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
FORESKIN |
LAUGHTER |
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NET Notes: Gen 21:3 Heb “the one born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.” The two modifying clauses, the first introduced with an article and the second w...
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NET Notes: Gen 21:4 Just as God had commanded him to do. With the birth of the promised child, Abraham obeyed the Lord by both naming (Gen 17:19) and circumcising Isaac (...
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NET Notes: Gen 21:5 The parenthetical disjunctive clause underscores how miraculous this birth was. Abraham was 100 years old. The fact that the genealogies give the ages...
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