¹⁵And God said to Abraham, “as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name. ¹⁶And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations.ⁿ Kings of peoples shall come^o from her.” ¹⁷And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old,^p or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”^q ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” ¹⁹And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him. ²⁰And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly.^r He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year.”

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Footnotes

nLiterally “she shall become to nations”
oOr “be”
pLiterally “to a man one hundred years old can he be born?”
qLiterally “can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?”
rLiterally “with very very”