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Genesis 18:13

New American Bible - revised edition

But the Lord said to Abraham: “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really bear a child, old as I am?’

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So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, am I still to have sexual pleasure?”

Is anything too marvelous for the Lord to do? At the appointed time, about this time next year, I will return to you, and Sarah will have a son.”

Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh, and all who hear of it will laugh with me.

Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

and did not need anyone to testify about human nature. He himself understood it well.