Genesis 21:7 meaning and explanation

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Genesis 21:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Sarah speaks these words at Isaac's birth, after decades of barrenness and after God had promised Abraham a son through her. Her question is one of astonished joy: no one could have predicted that Abraham, now a hundred, would hear that Sarah was nursing a child.

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