Abraham bowed his face to the ground {to show he respected God}. But he laughed and said to himself, “I am 100 years old. I can’t have a son. And Sarah is 90 years old. She can’t have a child.”
Genesis 18:12 - Easy To Read Version So Sarah {did not believe what she heard. She} laughed to herself and said, “I am old and my husband is old. I am too old to have a baby.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Common English Bible So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, I’m no longer able to have children and my husband’s old. Catholic Public Domain Version And she laughed secretly, saying, "After I have grown old, and my lord is elderly, shall I give myself to the work of delight?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure? |
Abraham bowed his face to the ground {to show he respected God}. But he laughed and said to himself, “I am 100 years old. I can’t have a son. And Sarah is 90 years old. She can’t have a child.”
Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Sarah laughed and said she was too old to have a baby.
Elisha said {to the woman}, “About this time next spring, you will be hugging your own baby boy.”
We will be laughing\par and singing happy songs!\par People in other nations will say,\par “The Lord did a wonderful thing\par for the people of Israel.”\par
so the king will be pleased with your beauty.\par He will be your new husband. {\cf2\super [278]} \par So you must honor him.\par
But each one of you must love his wife like he loves himself. And a wife must respect her husband.
\{I am talking about women\} like Sarah. She obeyed Abraham, {\cf2\super [23]} her husband, and called him her master. And you women are true children of Sarah if you always do what is right and are not afraid.
At dawn, the woman came back to the house where her master was staying. She fell down at the front door. She lay there until it was daylight.