Genesis 17:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

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  • Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

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  • Gen 17:19-21
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    19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

    20 As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

    21 and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

  • 17 And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

  • 12 and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

  • 5 And Abraham `is' a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him,

  • 13 and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, `After I have waxed old I have had pleasure! -- my lord also `is' old!'

  • 18 of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • 28 Sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17 And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he `is';

    18 rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with thy hand, for for a great nation I set him.'

  • 18 and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  • 11 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Behold thou `art' conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction;

  • 3 And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

  • 15 And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name;

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2 and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;

    3 and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him -- Isaac;

  • 2 And Abram saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.'

  • 15 And Hagar beareth to Abram a son; and Abram calleth the name of his son, whom Hagar hath borne, Ishmael;

  • 7 She saith also, `Who hath said to Abraham, Sarah hath suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?'

  • 17 And Abraham prayeth unto God, and God healeth Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:

  • 23 And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25 and Ishmael his son `is' a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

    26 in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

  • 12 And these `are' births of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, hath borne to Abraham;