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Genesis 17:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.’

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And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs  according to the promise.


The Lord said, ‘I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son! ’  Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.


By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.


For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.   ,


He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.


He has dealt mercifully with our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant   –


to Abraham and his descendants   for ever, just as he spoke to our ancestors.


If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until your anger   passes. If only you would appoint a time for me and then remember me.


Then he continued, ‘I am the God of your father,  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’  Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.


God heard their groaning, and God remembered  his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba,  and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


Then he blessed Joseph and said: The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd  all my life to this day,


But God said, ‘No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.  I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.


Is anything impossible for the Lord?  At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.’


The Lord came to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.





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