Sarah

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. Also called SARAI
• Wife of AbrahamGenesis 11:29–31Genesis 12:5
• Near of kin to AbrahamGenesis 12:10–20Genesis 20:12
• Abraham represents her as his sister, and Abimelech, king of Gerar, takes her; she is restored to Abraham by means of a dreamGenesis 20:1–14
• Is sterile; gives her handmaiden, Hagar, to Abraham as a concubineGenesis 16:1–3
• Her jealousy of HagarGenesis 16:4–6Genesis 21:9–14
• Her miraculous conception of IsaacGenesis 17:15–21Genesis 18:9–15
• Name changed from Sarai to SarahGenesis 17:15
• Gives birth to IsaacGenesis 21:3Genesis 21:6–8
• Death and burial ofGenesis 23Genesis 25:10
• Character ofHebrews 11:111 Peter 3:51 Peter 3:6
• 2. SARAH

The passages, in Bible order (17)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 11:29–31

   And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

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   “(Verse 29) And Abram and Nachor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran. The father of Milcah was also the father of Iscah. Haran fathered two daughters, Milcah and Iscah, who were both called by the same name. Of these, Milcah became the wife of Nachor, and Sarai became the wife of Abram. At that time, marriage between cousins and between siblings was not yet prohibited by law, as it later became among all people, even among brothers and sisters.

   “And Abram and Nahor took them wives,....

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2. Genesis 12:5

   And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 12:51 voice

   “Therefore, Sarai took his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had made in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. The phrase "the souls that they had …

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3. Genesis 12:10–20

   Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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   “Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there. After receiving the promises of blessing, after entering the land of promise, after building an altar to the Lord there, after invoking His name, Abraham is tested by …

   “And there was a famine in the land,....

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4. Genesis 16:1–3

   Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

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   “Therefore Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. She said to her husband, "Behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, so go into my maidservant; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And when he …

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5. Genesis 16:4–6

   And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 16:4–62 voices

   “It was not because he was ablaze with the heat of some unbridled passion, not because he was overcome by the charm of seductive beauty that Abraham gave preference to a relationship with a slave girl over the conjugal bed, but through a desire to procure a posterity and to enlarge his progeny. After the flood the human race was still numerically sparse. Hence it was also a matter of moral obligation that no one be seen to have failed to render the debt to nature.

   “And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived,.... The formality of the marriage being over, he enjoyed her as his wife, and she immediately conceived by him: and when she saw that she had conceived; when she perceived that she was with child: her mistress was despised in her eyes; she thought herself above her, and treated her as her inferior, with contempt, and reproached her for her barrenness, as Peninnah did Hannah, 1Sa 1:6; and it was the more ungrateful, as it was at the motion of her mistress that she was given to Abram for wife.

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6. Genesis 17:15–21

   Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 17:15–212 voices

   “(Verse 15) And God said to Abraham: You shall not call your wife Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. Those who think that the first Sarah was written with one 'R' and then another 'R' was added to it are mistaken. And because 'R' is the hundredth number among the Greeks, they suspect many silly things about her name: when in fact, whatever way they want to understand the composite word, it should have a Hebrew, not Greek, origin, since the name itself is Hebrew.

   “And God said unto Abraham,....

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7. Genesis 18:9–15

   “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 18:9–152 voices

   “What then does the Lord say to Abraham? "Where," the text reads, "is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "Lo, she is in the tent." But the Lord said, "I will certainly come to you at this time in due season, and Sarah your wife will have a son." But Sarah, standing behind the door of the tent behind Abraham, heard.Let the wives learn from the examples of the patriarchs; let the wives learn, I say, to follow their husbands.

   “And they said unto him, where is Sarah thy wife?....

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8. Genesis 20:1–14

   Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 20:1–141 voice

   “We have read from the book of Genesis the story where it is related that after the appearance of the three men, after the destruction of Sodom and the salvation of Lot, either due to his hospitality or because of his kinship to Abraham, "Abraham departed thence," the text says, "to the south" and came to the king of the Philistines. It is related also that he made an agreement with Sarah his wife that she should not say that she was Abraham's wife but his sister.

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9. Genesis 20:12

   Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 20:122 voices

   “And yet indeed she is my sister,.... In the same sense as Lot was his brother; for she was sister to Lot, and both were the children of Haran, the brother of Abraham: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; she was the daughter of his father, being his granddaughter, grandchildren are sometimes called children, but not the daughter or granddaughter of Abraham's mother; Terah having had two wives, by the one he had Haran, the father of Sarah, and by the other Abraham.

   “(Chapter 20, verse 12.) Truly my sister is from my father, but not from my mother. That is, her father is Aran, not her mother. But because it says in Hebrew: truly my sister is the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother: and it sounds more likely that she should be called Abraham's sister, we say this in her defense, that at that time such marriages were not yet prohibited by law.

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10. Genesis 21:3

    And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

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    “And Abraham called the name of his son whom Sarah bore to him Isaac. Isaac is interpreted as Laughter or Joy, which very name is fitting for all the faithful, to whom among other goods of the heavenly inheritance, their Redeemer promises by saying: "Again …

    “And Abraham called the name of his son that was borne unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

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11. Genesis 21:6–8

    Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

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    “In our father Isaac or the origin is sufficiently expressed, either by grace or by glory: to whom all glory redounds, that he was born to Abraham, a reward for such a worthy and admirable man. Nor is it surprising, since he preceded in the figure of the Lord's generation and passion.

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12. Genesis 21:9–14

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

    ›Commentary on Genesis 21:9–141 voice

    “(Chapter 21, Verse 9) And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she bore to Abraham, playing. What follows, with his son Isaac, is not present in the Hebrew. Therefore, this is interpreted in two ways by the Hebrews: either that she made idols out of play, according to what is written elsewhere: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play (Exodus 32:6); or that she claimed the rights of the firstborn against Isaac, as if he were older, through play and jest.

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13. Genesis 23:1

    Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

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    “And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old,....

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14. Genesis 25:10

    This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

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    “The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth,.... Of one of them, Ephron, the rest being witnesses of it, Gen 23:16, there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife; Sarah had been buried there thirty eight years before, which was the reason why his sons buried, him there; if he died in Beersheba, as seems probable, see Gen 24:62; from thence to Hebron were sixteen miles (h); so far was he carried to be interred. (h) Bunting's Travels, p. 57.

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15. Hebrews 11:11

    By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.

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    “There is much to tell of faith, and the whole day would not be enough time for us to describe it fully. At present let us be content with Abraham only, as one of the examples from the Old Testament, seeing that we have been made his sons through faith. He was justified not only by works but also by faith: for though he did many things well, yet he was never called the friend of God except when he believed. Moreover, his every work was performed in faith.

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16. 1 Peter 3:5

    For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

    ›Commentary on 1 Peter 3:51 voice

    “Here he calls obedience an adornment, saying: they adorned themselves by being obedient to their own husbands. Having spoken indefinitely of "holy women," he calls them daughters of Sarah either by faith or by descent. For daughters must necessarily imitate their mothers. Along with the …

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