Reference: Sarah
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1. 'Sarai' is the form used previous to Ge 17:15, and 'Sarah' afterwards, in harmony with the change of name there narrated (by Priestly Narrative). It is probable that there is no real significance in the change, -ai being an old feminine ending found in Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic, while -ah is the common feminine ending. Sarah means 'princess.' The occurrence of the name Sa-ra-a-a in an Assyrian letter (K 1274) adds no definite information. Sarah was the wife of Abraham, and also his half-sister (Ge 12:13; 20:12); her parentage is not given further. She was taken as wife by the king of Egypt and also by Abimelech king of Gerar, and afterwards restored to Abraham (Ge 12:10-20,20). The former incident is in Jahwist, the latter in E; they may be different versions of the same story. The statement that she was at least 65 years old at this time (Ge 12:4; cf. Ge 17:17) seems inconsistent with these incidents, and especially with the statement concerning her beauty (Ge 12:11). It is to be remembered, however, that the dates belong to P. Sarah was long barren, but finally Isaac was born after supernatural intervention, when she was 90 years old (Ge 21:1-7 Priestly Narrative). Through jealousy Sarah illtreated Hagar, her handmaid, the concubine of Abraham, and finally drove her away with her son Ishmael (Ge 16; 21:8-21). The incident is in harmony with the regulations of the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (
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And Abram went according to which Jehovah spake to him, and Lot went with him: and Abram the son of . five years and seventy years in his coming out of Haran.
And there shall be a famine in the land; and Abram will go down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was strong in the land. And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sarai his wife, Behold, now I knew that thou wert a fair woman to see.
And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sarai his wife, Behold, now I knew that thou wert a fair woman to see. And it shall be when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee they will permit to live. read more. Say, now, thou my sister, that it shall be well to me because of thee, and my soul shall live by means of thee.
Say, now, thou my sister, that it shall be well to me because of thee, and my soul shall live by means of thee. And it shall be when Abram goes to Egypt, and the Egyptians will see the woman that she was very fair. read more. And Pharaoh's rulers will see her, and will praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman shall be taken into Pharaoh's house. And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels. And Jehovah will touch Pharaoh with great strokes, and his house on account of Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh will call to Abram, and will say, What this thou didst to me? why didst thou not declare to me that she is thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister and I shall take her to me for a wife? and now behold thy wife, take and go. And Pharaoh will command the men concerning him, and they will send him away, and his wife and all that is to him.
And Pharaoh will command the men concerning him, and they will send him away, and his wife and all that is to him.
And God will say to Abraham, Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, for Sarah her name.
And Abraham will fall upon his face and laugh, and will say in his heart, Shall there be born to the son of a hundred years? and shall Sarah the daughter of ninety years, bring forth?
And truly also my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she was to me for wife.
And Jehovah reviewed Sarah as he said; and Jehovah will do to Sarah as he spake. And Sarah shall conceive, and bring forth to Abraham a son to his old age, at the appointed time which God spake to him. read more. And Abraham shall call the name of his son being born to him, whom Sarah will bear to him, Isaak. And Abraham shall circumcise Isaak his son, the son of eight days, as God commanded him. And Abraham the son of an hundred years in the bringing forth to him Isaak his son. And Sarah will say, God made me laugh; all hearing will laugh with me. And she will say, Who spake to Abraham, Sarah suckles sons? for I brought forth a son in his old age.
And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb:
For this the word of solemn promise, According to this time will I come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.
Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.
By faith Sara also herself received power for the laying down of seed, and brought forth during the time of age, for she deemed him faithful having promised.