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Genesis 17:15-17
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15 God further said to Abraham: As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.[a] 16 I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. Her also will I bless; she will give rise to nations, and rulers of peoples will issue from her.(A) 17 Abraham fell face down and laughed[b] as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:15 Sarai and Sarah are variant forms of the same name, both meaning “princess.”
  2. 17:17 Laughed: yishaq, which is also the Hebrew form of the name “Isaac”; similar explanations of the name are given in Gn 18:12 and 21:6.
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