Abraham gave the name Isaac[a](A) to the son Sarah bore him.

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  1. Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

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Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,(A) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

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And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

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13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’(A)

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13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

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10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named(A) him Moses,[a] saying, “I drew(B) him out of the water.”

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  1. Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.

10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

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and her two sons.(A) One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;(B)

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  1. Exodus 18:3 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.

And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

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and the other was named Eliezer,[a](A) for he said, “My father’s God was my helper;(B) he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”

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  1. Exodus 18:4 Eliezer means my God is helper.

And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

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