Cross References

Genesis 21:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.

Abraham fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,

Next his brother came out, gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Cursed be the one who brought the news to my father, “A child, a son, has been born to you!” filling him with great joy.

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as [already] dead (for he was almost a hundred years old) and the dead womb of Sarah.

And so, after patient waiting, he obtained the promise.