Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’
Genesis 18:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in years; it had ceased to be with Sarah as with [young] women. [She was past the age of childbearing]. American Standard Version (1901) Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Common English Bible Now Abraham and Sarah were both very old. Sarah was no longer menstruating. Catholic Public Domain Version Now they were both old, and in an advanced state of life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. |
Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,
She also said, ‘Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.’
Abraham was now old, getting on in years, , and the Lord had blessed him in everything.
Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
She said to her father, ‘Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.’ So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
‘When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
‘How can I know this? ’ Zechariah asked the angel. ‘For I am an old man, and my wife is well on in years.’
And consider your relative Elizabeth #– #even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless.
But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well on in years.
He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead; therefore, he received him back, figuratively speaking.
Joshua was now old, advanced in age, and the Lord said to him, ‘You have become old, advanced in age, but a great deal of the land remains to be possessed.