Genesis 21:4
2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
- KJV
- And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- WEB
- Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- ASV
- And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- DARBY
- And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- BLB
- And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him.
- ÅB
- Og Abraham omskar Isak, sin sønn, da han var åtte dager gammel, slik som Gud hadde befalt ham.
- OTB
- Abraham omskar sin sønn Isak da han var åtte dager gammel, i henhold til Guds befaling.
- B1930
- Og Abraham omskar Isak, sin sønn, da han var åtte dager gammel, således som Gud hadde befalt ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 7:8
Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Read in contextGenesis 17:10–12
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Read in contextLeviticus 12:3
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
Read in contextJohn 7:22–23
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
Read in contextExodus 12:48
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
Read in contextLuke 1:6
Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:32
See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
Read in contextLuke 1:59
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
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