Genesis 21:12

12 But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, edo as she tells you, for fthrough Isaac shall your offspring be named.

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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Romans 9:7
and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

Hebrews 11:18
of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]