Genesis 21:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Gen 18:11-12 : 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?
  • Num 23:23 : 23 No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!
  • Deut 4:32-34 : 32 Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story. 33 Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did? 34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
  • Ps 86:8 : 8 There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.
  • Ps 86:10 : 10 For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
  • Isa 66:8 : 8 When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.
  • Eph 3:10 : 10 So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.

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  • Gen 21:1-6
    6 verses
    84%

    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.

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

    4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

    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.

  • Gen 17:15-19
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Gen 18:9-15
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    81%

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

    10 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.

    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.

  • Gen 21:8-10
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    77%

    8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

    9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

  • Gen 17:21
    75%

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

  • Gen 24:36
    74%

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

  • Rom 9:9
    71%

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

  • Gen 22:20
    71%

    20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

  • Heb 11:11
    71%

    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 21:12
    70%

    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 11:30
    70%

    30 And Sarai had no child.

  • Gen 16:2
    70%

    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 20:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

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

  • Gen 25:22
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    22 And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

  • Gen 21:19
    69%

    19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

  • Gen 15:3
    69%

    3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

  • Gen 30:23
    69%

    23 And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.