World English Bible
Genesis 18:12
“Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Verse in context — Genesis 18
10
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.
11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
13
Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?
14
Is 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.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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