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Genesis 21:8

AbrahamIsaac
JoyParents and children

6 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.”

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

10 and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

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BSB
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
KJV
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
WEB
The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
ASV
And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
DARBY
And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
BLB
And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
ÅB
Og gutten vokste opp og ble avvent; og Abraham gjorde et stort gjestebud den dag Isak ble avvent.
OTB
Barnet vokste og ble avvent, og Abraham feiret med en stor fest på dagen Isak ble avvent.
B1930
Og gutten vokste op og blev avvent; og Abraham gjorde et stort gjestebud den dag Isak blev avvent.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 1:22

    but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”

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  • Hosea 1:8

    After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.

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  • Genesis 40:20

    On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

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  • Genesis 29:22

    So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

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  • Psalms 131:2

    Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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  • 1 Kings 3:15

    Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

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  • Genesis 26:30

    So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

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  • Genesis 19:3

    But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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