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Genesis 18:13

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Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

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Genesis 18:13 in other translations

And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

Genesis 18:13 · American Standard Version

Genesis 18:13 in context

  1. 11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
  2. 12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
  3. 13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
  4. 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.”
  5. 15Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
    He said, “No, but you did laugh.”