Genesis 17:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:12 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

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    19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

    20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

    21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

  • Gen 17:17
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    17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

  • Gen 21:12
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    12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

  • Gen 18:13
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    13 And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

    18 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

  • Gen 16:11
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    11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

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    3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

  • Gen 17:15
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    15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

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    2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

    3 And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

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    2 And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

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    15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

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    7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

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    17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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    23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

    26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

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    12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah: