The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.*
Genesis 18:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He said, *I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.* Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The Lord] said, I will surely return to you when the season comes round, and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son. And Sarah was listening and heard it at the tent door which was behind Him. [Rom. 9:9-12.] American Standard Version (1901) And he said, I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. Common English Bible Then one of the men said, “I will definitely return to you about this time next year. Then your wife Sarah will have a son!” Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to him, "When returning, I will come to you at this time, with life as a companion, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Hearing this, Sarah laughed behind the door of the tent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying; and Sara thy wife shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. |
The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.*
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.*
God said, *No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Yitzchak. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
But my covenant I establish with Yitzchak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.*
They said to him, *Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, *See, in the tent.*
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
But the angel said to him, *Don't be afraid, Zekharyah, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elisheva, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yochanan.
However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.