17 Then Abraham prayed to God,(A) and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, 18 for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.(B)

The Birth of Isaac

21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah(C) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.(D) Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(E) to Abraham in his old age,(F) at the very time God had promised him.(G) Abraham gave the name Isaac[a](H) to the son Sarah bore him.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.

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