◄ Genesis 17:15 ►
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Good News Translation
God said to Abraham, "You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.

New Revised Standard Version
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

Contemporary English Version
Abraham, from now on your wife's name will be Sarah instead of Sarai.

New American Bible
God further said to Abraham: As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

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Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

2 Samuel 12:25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.

Sarah.

Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
…14The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant. 15God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.16And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.…
Cross References
Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

Genesis 17:14
The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Isaiah 51:1
Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

Genesis 17:14
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