Genesis 18:13

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

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  • Gen 18:9-12
    4 verses
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    9They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

    10He 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.

    11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16I 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."

    17Then Abraham 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?"

    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Gen 18:14-18
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    14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

    15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

    16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

    17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

    18since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gen 21:5-7
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    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

    6Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

    7She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Gen 21:1-2
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    1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

    2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • 21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • 36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

    18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • 9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • 2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • 11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • 16He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

  • Gen 20:10-11
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    10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

    11Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

  • 12God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 15:2-3
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    2Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

    3Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

  • 2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • 19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

  • 18Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

  • 1Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

  • 30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • 18Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

  • 16and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • 9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

  • 22The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

  • 1It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • 6Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

  • 5Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."