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The Birth of Isaac

Genesis 21:8

In 11 translations

BSB
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
KJV
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
WEB
The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
ASV
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
LSV
And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned;
YLT
And the lad groweth, and is weaned, and Abraham maketh a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned;
DBY
And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
DRC
And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
GNV
Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was weaned.
JPS
And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
LXXE
And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraam made a great feast the day that his son Isaac was weaned.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּגְדַּ֥ל הַיֶּ֖לֶד וַיִּגָּמַ֑ל וַיַּ֤עַשׂ אַבְרָהָם֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה גָד֔וֹל בְּי֖וֹם הִגָּמֵ֥ל אֶת־יִצְחָֽק׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ηὐξήθη τὸ παιδίον, καὶ ἀπεγαλακτίσθη· καὶ ἐποίησεν Ἁβραὰμ δοχὴν μεγάλην, ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπεκγαλακτίσθη Ἰσαὰκ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ.

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  • 1 Samuel 1:22but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
  • Hosea 1:8After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.
  • Genesis 19:3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
  • Genesis 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
  • 2 Samuel 3:20When Abner and twenty of his men came to David at Hebron, David held a feast for them.
  • 1 Kings 3:15Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his…
  • Genesis 29:22So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
  • Psalms 131:2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
  • Genesis 26:30So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
  • Esther 1:3In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
  • Judges 14:12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
  • Judges 14:10Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
  • 1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

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