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Genesis 21:8
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6 And Sarah said, a“God has made me laugh, and all who hear bwill laugh with me.”  
7 She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? aFor I have borne him a son in his old age.”  

Hagar and Ishmael Depart

8 So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar athe Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, bscoffing.  
10 Therefore she said to Abraham, a“Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.”  
11 And the matter was very1 displeasing in Abraham’s sight abecause of his son.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 21:8

the child grew, and was weaned—children are suckled longer in the East than in the Occident—boys usually for two or three years.

Abraham made a great feast, etc.—In Eastern countries this is always a season of domestic festivity, and the newly weaned child is formally brought, in presence of the assembled relatives and friends, to partake of some simple viands. Isaac, attired in the symbolic robe, the badge of birthright, was then admitted heir of the tribe [ROSENMULLER].




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