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Genesis 21:3
Genesis 21:3 is verse 3 of Genesis chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
Isaac means he laughs.
King James Version
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
World English Bible
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Isaac means “He laughs”.
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Genesis 21:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Genesis 17:19But 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.
Genesis 22:2“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
Joshua 24:3But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Matthew 1:2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
Acts 7:8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 9:7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
Hebrews 11:18even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”