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Genesis 21:1

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

KJV

Visitavit autem Dominus Saram, sicut promiserat : et implevit quæ locutus est.

Vulgate

Καὶ Κύριος ἐπεσκέψατο τὴν Σάρραν, καθὰ εἶπεν· καὶ ἐποίησεν Κύριος τῇ Σάρρᾳ καθὰ ἐλάλησεν.

LXX

And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

ASV

וַֽ/יהוָ֛ה פָּקַ֥ד אֶת שָׂרָ֖ה כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָמָ֑ר וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ יְהוָ֛ה לְ/שָׂרָ֖ה כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֵּֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הֶ֑ם
hm
verb · 303×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
שָׂרָ֖ה
shrh
proper_noun · 38×

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Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§489Throughout the Old Covenant the mission of many holy women prepared for that of Mary. At the very beginning there was Eve; despite her disobedience, she receives the promise of a posterity that will be victorious over the evil one, as well as the promise that she will be the mother of all the living.128 By virtue of this promise, Sarah conceives a son in spite of her old age.12…
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 1:19 — And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
  • 1Sam 2:21 — And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • 1Sam 2:21 — And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • 2Kgs 4:17 — And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
  • Eccl 3:2 — A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  • Exod 3:16 — Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
  • Exod 3:16 — Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
  • Exod 4:31 — And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Gal 4:23 — But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
  • Gal 4:23 — But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
  • Gal 4:28 — Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
  • Gen 17:16 — And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
  • Gen 17:19 — And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
  • Gen 17:21 — But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
  • Gen 18:10 — And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
  • Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Gen 24:36 — And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
  • Gen 30:22 — And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Gen 50:24 — And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Heb 11:11 — Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • Luke 1:25 — Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
  • Luke 1:68 — Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
  • Luke 19:44 — And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
  • Matt 24:35 — Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Ps 8:4 — What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
  • Ps 12:6 — The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
  • Ps 106:4 — Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
  • Rom 4:17 — (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
  • Ruth 1:6 — Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
  • Ruth 1:6 — Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
  • Titus 1:2 — In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;