Genesis 21:1

Translations

Modern

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Traditional

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Literal

And YHWH visited Sarah as He had said, and YHWH did for Sarah as He had spoken.

Latin

Visitavit autem Dominus Saram, sicut promiserat: et implevit quæ locutus est.

Original

Hebrew

English

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Notes

Genesis 21:1–2

See Genesis 18:10.

Theme notes and profiles

Abraham Isaac Ishmael Sarah God’s Covenant with Abraham Symbolic Numbers

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Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
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Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
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But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
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So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
Titus 1:2
…in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
Ruth 1:6
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Romans 4:17–20
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
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Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Exodus 4:31
…and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

People

Sarah: Wife of Abraham; mother of Isaac

Glossary

Abraham Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Ebla Tablets Genealogy Genesis, Book of Patriarchs, Period of the Primogeniture Sarah

Topics

Children in Answer to Prayer: To Abraham Conception: Miraculous by Sarah God: Faithfulness of Isaac: The Miraculous Son of Abraham

Genesis 21:1

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