OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 21:7

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She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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Verse 7. Gave suck; a certain proof that the child was born of her. Menochius.—His old age, when both the parents were far advanced in years, verse 2. The mother being ninety at this time, would render the event most surprising. Bible.

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