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From Genesis 17+18
17:15
God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17
Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
18
And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19
Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [
4] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."
18:9
"Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked him. "There, in the tent," he said.
10
Then the LORD [3] said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
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Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
12
So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my master [4] is old, will I now have this pleasure?"
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Then the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, `Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son."
Abraham had two sons, Ishmael,and Isaac. Ishmael had twelve sons and they became the twelve, Arab tribes. Isaac had Jacob (who's name was changed by God to Israel), and he also had twelve sons, by several wives, and they became the twelve tribes of Israel.
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