Genesis 21:4
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New International Version (©2011)
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

NET Bible (©2006)
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

American King James Version
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

American Standard Version
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

Darby Bible Translation
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

English Revised Version
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

World English Bible
Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Young's Literal Translation
and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, being a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-8 Few under the Old Testament were brought into the world with such expectations as Isaac. He was in this a type of Christ, that Seed which the holy God so long promised, and holy men so long expected. He was born according to the promise, at the set time of which God had spoken. God's promised mercies will certainly come at the time which He sets, and that is the best time. Isaac means laughter, and there was good reason for the name, ch. 17:17; 18:13. When the Sun of comfort is risen upon the soul, it is good to remember how welcome the dawning of the day was. When Sarah received the promise, she laughed with distrust and doubt. When God gives us the mercies we began to despair of, we ought to remember with sorrow and shame our sinful distrust of his power and promise, when we were in pursuit of them. This mercy filled Sarah with joy and wonder. God's favours to his covenant people are such as surpass their own and others' thoughts and expectations: who could imagine that he should do so much for those that deserve so little, nay, for those that deserve so ill? Who would have said that God should send his Son to die for us, his Spirit to make us holy, his angels to attend us? Who would have said that such great sins should be pardoned, such mean services accepted, and such worthless worms taken into covenant? A short account of Isaac's infancy is given. God's blessing upon the nursing of children, and the preservation of them through the perils of the infant age, are to be acknowledged as signal instances of the care and tenderness of the Divine providence. See Ps 22:9,10; Ho 11:1,2.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - And Abraham circumcised (vide on Genesis 17:11, and note at the end of that chapter) his son Isaac being eight days old (literally, a son of eight days), as (not only because, but in the manner in which) God had commanded him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old as,

God had commanded him. Genesis 17:12, and was the first that we read of that was circumcised on that day, according to the divine precept, which Abraham strictly observed; for though this was the son of the promise, and of his old age, for whom he had the most affectionate regard, yet he administered this bloody ordinance on him; nor did he defer it beyond the time, and was himself the operator, as it seems; all which shows his strict regard, and ready and cheerful obedience to the command of God.

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The Birth of Isaac
…3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. …

John 7:22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.
Acts 7:8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Genesis 17:12 For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner--those who are not your offspring.