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Three Men: Where is Sarah, your wife?

Abraham: She’s right in there . . . in the tent.

One of the Men: 10 I will return here to you when life emerges from the womb[a] of your wife, Sarah. She will give birth to a son.[b]

Now Sarah was behind her guests, listening to all of this from the entrance of the tent. 11 Abraham and Sarah were quite old at this time, well advanced in years, and Sarah had long ago gone through menopause.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:10 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  2. 18:10 Romans 9:9

“Where is your wife Sarah?”(A) they asked him.

“There, in the tent,(B)” he said.

10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year,(C) and Sarah your wife will have a son.”(D)

Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old,(E) and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.(F)

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