Genesis 21:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 19:3 : 3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.
  • Gen 26:30 : 30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.
  • Gen 29:22 : 22 And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.
  • Gen 40:20 : 20 Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.
  • Judg 14:10 : 10 Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.
  • Judg 14:12 : 12 And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;
  • 1 Sam 1:22 : 22 But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.
  • 2 Sam 3:20 : 20 So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
  • 1 Kgs 3:15 : 15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.
  • Esth 1:3 : 3 In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;
  • Ps 131:2 : 2 See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
  • Hos 1:8 : 8 Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.

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  • Gen 21:2-7
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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.

    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.

    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.

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    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 17:23-26
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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.

    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

    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.

  • Gen 18:6-8
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    6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

    7 And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

    8 And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.

  • Gen 17:21
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    21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

  • Gen 26:30
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    30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

  • Gen 25:19
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    19 Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:

  • Gen 21:12-15
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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.

    13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

    14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

    15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

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

  • Gen 17:19
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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.

  • Gen 22:9
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    9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

  • Gen 21:20
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    20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

  • Gen 25:12
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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:

  • Gen 25:5
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    5 Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac;

  • Gal 4:28
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    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

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

  • 1 Sam 1:24
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    24 Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.