Genesis 18:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Therefore Sarah laughed to herself, saying, After I have become aged shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband), being old also? [I Pet. 3:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Common English Bible

¹² So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, I’m no longer able to have children and my husband’s old.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And she laughed secretly, saying, "After I have grown old, and my lord is elderly, shall I give myself to the work of delight?"

Genesis 18:12 Cross References

1 Peter 3:6

Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters as long as you do what is good and never let fears alarm you.

Genesis 17:17

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?”

Genesis 18:13

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Psalm 126:2

Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Psalm 45:11

and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;

Judges 19:26

As morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light.

2 Kings 4:16

He said, “At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son.” She replied, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant.”