Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, *Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?*
Genesis 18:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Sarah laughed within herself, saying, *After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?* 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? |
Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, *Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?*
The LORD said to Avraham, *Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, *The LORD has done great things for them.*
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
as Sarah obeyed Avraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.