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Sarah

wife of Abraham

Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.

48 appearances5 Bible books2 known aliases

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Wife of who leaves and with him and shares the long wait for the promised son. Twice she is taken into a foreign king's household — by in Egypt and by Abimelech in — and twice God intervenes to protect her. Long past childbearing age she laughs at the announcement that she will bear a son, yet she conceives as God promised. Her dispute with leads to Hagar's expulsion, and she dies at and is buried in the cave of ; and 1 remember her as a model of faith.

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