Genesis 17:15

World English Bible (2000)

God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 17:5 : 5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
  • 2 Sam 12:25 : 25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

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  • Gen 17:16-19
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    84%

    16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

    17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

    18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Gen 17:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

    5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

  • Gen 17:21
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    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Gen 16:1-3
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

    3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

  • Gen 18:10-13
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    76%

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

  • Gen 20:2
    76%

    2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 21:12
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    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 21:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

    3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

  • Gen 18:15
    75%

    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 17:9
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    9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

  • 1 Chr 1:27
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    27 Abram (the same is Abraham).

  • Gen 12:17-19
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    74%

    17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

  • Gen 11:30
    74%

    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 16:6
    74%

    6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Rom 9:9
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    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 24:36
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    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 35:10
    73%

    10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

  • Gen 17:2
    72%

    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

  • Gen 16:15
    72%

    15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.