Genesis 18:6–15

⁶Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread.” ⁷Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready. ⁸He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.

⁹Then they asked him, “Where is your wife Sarah?”

“She is there in the tent,” he answered.

^10*One of them said, “Nine months from now^q I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son.”

Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening. ¹¹Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods. ^12*So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too.”

¹³Then the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child when I am so old?’ ^14*Is anything too hard for the Lord? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

¹⁵Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. “I didn’t laugh,” she said.

“Yes, you did,” he replied. “You laughed.”