Genesis 24:36 Cross References - NSB

³⁶ »Sarah, my master’s wife, did not have any children until she was very old. Then she had a son, and my master has given him everything.

²⁹ Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰ Now Sarai was barren. She had no children.

¹⁵ God continued: »Do not call your wife Sarai any longer. Her name will be Sarah. ¹⁶ »I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.« ¹⁷ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?« ¹⁸ Abraham said to God: »If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!« ¹⁹ God replied: »Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

¹⁰ He said: »Next year I will give you and Sarah a son.« (Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.) ¹¹ Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. ¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: »After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also.« ¹³ Jehovah said to Abraham: »Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' ¹⁴ »Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!«

¹ Jehovah was gracious to Sarah, as he had said. Jehovah did for Sarah what he had promised. ² Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him. ³ Abraham gave the name Isaac (he laughs) to the son Sarah bore 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. ⁶ Sarah said: »God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.« ⁷ She added: »Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.«

¹⁰ She said to Abraham: »Get rid of that slave woman and her son.«

⁵ Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

¹⁹ Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.