The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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- KJV And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- BSB So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
- NKJV So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- NASB And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
- NLT When Isaac grew up and was about to be weaned, Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion.
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- 1 Sam 1:22But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”
- Hos 1:8Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
- 1 Kgs 3:15Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
- Gen 26:30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
- Ps 131:2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- 2 Sam 3:20So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
- Gen 29:22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Gen 19:3He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Gen 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- 1 Sam 25:36Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
- Judg 14:12Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
- Judg 14:10His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
- Esth 1:3in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
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