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Sarah Laughs at the Promise

The men asked him, “Where is your wife Sarah?”

“There, in the tent,” he replied.

10 Then one of them said, “I will certainly return to you in about a year’s time.[a] By then, your wife Sarah will have borne a son.”

Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were old—really old[b]—and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:10 Lit. you according to the time of life
  2. Genesis 18:11 Lit. well advanced in days
  3. Genesis 18:11 Lit. The way of women has ceased for Sarah