Genesis 18:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

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  • Gen 21:2 : 2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.
  • Gen 17:19 : 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.
  • Gen 18:13-14 : 13 And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child? 14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
  • Gen 16:10 : 10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
  • Gen 22:15-16 : 15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven, 16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
  • Judg 13:3-5 : 3 And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son. 4 Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food; 5 For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
  • 2 Kgs 4:16-17 : 16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant. 17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
  • Rom 9:8-9 : 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed. 9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.
  • Gal 4:23 : 23 Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.
  • Gal 4:28 : 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 18:11-15
    5 verses
    84%

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

    12 And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

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

    14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

    15 Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

  • 9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.

  • Gen 21:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

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

  • 9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

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

  • Gen 17:15-19
    5 verses
    78%

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

    16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

    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?

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

    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.

  • 36 And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

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    16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

    17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

  • Gen 21:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

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

    6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

    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.

  • 2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

  • Gen 18:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

    6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

  • 11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

  • Gen 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

    2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

  • 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.

  • 18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 24:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

    6 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

    7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

  • 10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

  • 19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • 11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

  • 2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

  • 19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

  • 40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

  • 13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

  • 4 Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.