Genesis 21:9 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 21:9

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

KJV

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DBT

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

ASV

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

WEB

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

YLT

and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking,

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Galatians 4:24
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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), and perhaps his name bade him expect it. Note, God's favourites are often the world's laughing-stocks. (4.) The promise which he was not only the son, but the heir of, was to be the joy of all the saints in all ages, and that which would fill their mouths with laughter.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

29 ), that he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit. Ishmael is here called the son of the Egyptian, because, as some think, the 400 years' affliction of the seed of Abraham by the Egyptians began now, and was to be dated hence, ch. xv. She saw him playing with Isaac, so the LXX., and, in play, mocking him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Sarah saw the son of Hagar . . . mocking--Ishmael was aware of the great change in his prospects, and under the impulse of irritated or resentful feelings, in which he was probably joined by his mother, treated the young heir with derision and probably some violence (Ga 4:29).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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