Genesis 21:6
4 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.
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
7 She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- KJV
- And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
- WEB
- Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
- ASV
- And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. Every one that heareth will laugh with me.
- DARBY
- And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.
- BLB
- And Sarah said, “God has brought to me laughter; all who hear will laugh with me.”
- ÅB
- Da sa Sara: Gud har gjort det så at jeg må le; alle som hører dette, vil le av meg.
- OTB
- Sara erklærte, “Gud har brakt meg latter, og alle som hører det vil dele min glede.”
- B1930
- Da sa Sara: Gud har gjort det så at jeg må le; alle som hører dette, vil le av mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
Read in contextIsaiah 54:1
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
Read in contextGenesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
Read in contextLuke 1:58
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
Read in contextGalatians 4:27–28
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
Read in contextLuke 1:46–55
Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
Read in contextIsaiah 49:21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
Read in contextLuke 1:14
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,
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