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Genesis 18:2–15

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2When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three amen were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,

3and said, “1My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, please do not 2pass Your servant by.

4“Please let a little water be brought and awash your feet, and 1rest yourselves under the tree;

5and I will 1abring a piece of bread, that you may 2refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have 3visited your servant.” And they said, “So do, as you have said.”

6So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “1Quickly, prepare three 2measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes.”

7Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and 1choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.

8He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree 1as they ate.

9Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “There, in the tent.”

10He said, “aI will surely return to you 1at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.

11Now aAbraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was bpast 1childbearing.

12Sarah laughed 1to herself, saying, “aAfter I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my blord being old also?”

13And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeed 1bear a child, when I am so old?’

14“aIs anything too 1difficult for the Lord? At the bappointed time I will return to you, 2at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

15Sarah denied it however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

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Genesis 18:14: Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son…

Footnotes

  1. 1Or O Lord
  2. 2Lit pass away from Your servant
  3. 1Lit support
  4. 1Lit take
  5. 2Lit sustain your heart
  6. 3Lit come to
  7. 1Lit Hasten three measures
  8. 2Heb seah; i.e. one seah equals approx eleven qts
  9. 1Lit good
  10. 1Lit and
  11. 1Lit when the time revives
  12. 1Lit the manner of women
  13. 1Lit within
  14. 1Lit surely bear
  15. 1Or wonderful
  16. 2Lit when the time revives

Cross references

  1. aGen 18:16, 22; 32:24; Josh 5:13; Judg 13:6–11; Heb 13:2
  2. aGen 19:2; 24:32; 43:24
  3. aJudg 6:18, 19; 13:15, 16
  4. aGen 21:2; Rom 9:9
  5. aGen 17:17; Rom 4:19
  6. bHeb 11:11
  7. aGen 17:17; Luke 1:18
  8. b1 Pet 3:6
  9. aJer 32:17, 27; Zech 8:6; Matt 19:26; Luke 1:37; Rom 4:21
  10. bGen 17:21; 18:10