¹⁷ Abraham fell face down and laughed^[a] 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?”^(A)

^19 (A)He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as [already] dead (for he was almost a hundred years old) and the dead womb of Sarah.

¹¹ By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age—and Sarah herself was sterile—for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy.^{(A) 12} So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.^(B)