Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- BSB And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- NKJV And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”
- NASB And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!”
- NLT So Abraham said to God, “May Ishmael live under your special blessing!”
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Cross-references · 7
- Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
- Ps 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
- Ps 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
- Isa 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- Gen 4:12From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
- Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- Gen 4:14Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
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