Genesis 17:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a son?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Abraham fell on his face and laughed. He said to himself, Can a 100-year-old man become a father, or Sarah, a 90-year-old woman, have a child?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: "Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

Genesis 17:17 Cross References

Genesis 17:18

And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live in your sight!”

Genesis 17:3

Then Abram fell on his face, and God said to him,

Genesis 18:11

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”

Genesis 21:5

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Genesis 21:6

Now Sarah said, “God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21:7

And she said, “Who would ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

1 Chronicles 21:16

David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Ezekiel 1:28

Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendor all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.

Daniel 8:17

So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I became frightened and fell prostrate. But he said to me, “Understand, O mortal, that the vision is for the time of the end.”

Leviticus 9:24

Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.

Matthew 2:11

On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I know that this will happen? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.”

John 8:56

Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,

Joshua 5:14

He replied, “Neither, but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and he said to him, “What do you command your servant, my lord?”

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

Revelation 11:16

Then the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

Revelation 5:8

When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Judges 13:20

When the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on, and they fell on their faces to the ground.