Genesis 17:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And [he] said to God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

Common English Bible

¹⁸ To God Abraham said, “If only you would accept Ishmael!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he said to God, "If only Ishmael would live in your sight."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

Genesis 17:18 Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Genesis 17:19

And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Genesis 21:11

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

Genesis 4:12

when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that whosoever findeth me shall slay me.

Psalm 4:6

Many there be that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Psalm 41:12

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

Isaiah 59:2

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Jeremiah 32:39

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Acts 2:39

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.