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15 And God said to Abraham, “as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations.[a] Kings of peoples shall come[b] from her.” 17 And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old,[c] or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:16 Literally “she shall become to nations”
  2. Genesis 17:16 Or “be”
  3. Genesis 17:17 Literally “to a man one hundred years old can he be born?”
  4. Genesis 17:17 Literally “can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?”