Genesis 21:3
Verse 3 of 34. The 21st of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.
1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
Genesis 21:3 in the World English Bible
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.Read Genesis 21:3 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:3
He named him, as God commanded him, v. 3. God directed him to a name for a memorial, Isaac, laughter; and Abraham, whose office it was, gave him that name, though he might have designed him some other name of a more pompous signification.
Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:1–8: The Birth of Isaac. (b. c. 1897.)
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