Genesis 17:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 4:12 : 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

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    19God 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.

    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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

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    17Then 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?"

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    12God 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.

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    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

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

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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

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    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

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    17God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

    18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

  • Gen 18:18
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    18since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

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    11The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

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    3Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

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    15God 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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    2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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    2Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

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

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    7She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

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

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    23Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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