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Genesis 18:12

World English Bible

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

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Genesis 18:12 in other translations

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Genesis 18:12 · American Standard Version

Genesis 18:12 in context

  1. 10He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
    Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
  2. 11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
  3. 12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
  4. 13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
  5. 14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”