Verse 12
Genesis 18:12
Literal Standard Version
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and Sarah laughs in her heart, saying, “After I have waxed old have I had pleasure? My lord is also old!”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּצְחַ֥ק שָׂרָ֖ה בְּ/קִרְבָּ֣/הּ לֵ/אמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִ/י֙ הָֽיְתָה לִּ֣/י עֶדְנָ֔ה וַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י זָקֵֽן
English Translation
And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have become worn out, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old?"
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Chapter 18 Context
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And YHWH appears to him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about...
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and he lifts up his eyes and looks, and behold, three men standing by him, and he sees, and runs to...
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and he says, “My Lord, if now I have found grace in Your eyes, please do not pass on from Your serva...
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please let a little water be accepted, and wash Your feet, and recline under the tree;
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and I bring a piece of bread, and support Your heart; afterward pass on, for therefore You have pass...
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And Abraham hurries toward the tent, to Sarah, and says, “Hurry three measures of flour-meal, knead,...
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and Abraham ran to the herd, and takes a son of the herd, tender and good, and gives to the young ma...
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and he takes butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he has prepared, and sets before them; a...
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9
And they say to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he says, “Behold—in the tent”;
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and He says, “Returning I return to you, about the time of life, and behold, to Sarah your wife a so...
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and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days—the way of women has ceased to be to Sarah;
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and Sarah laughs in her heart, saying, “After I have waxed old have I had pleasure? My lord is also...
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And YHWH says to Abraham, “Why is this? Sarah has laughed, saying, Is it really true—I bear—and I am...
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Is anything too wonderful for YHWH? At the appointed time I return to you, about the time of life, a...
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And Sarah denies, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she has been afraid; and He says, “No, but you did...
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16
And the men rise from there, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send t...
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and YHWH said, “Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,
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and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of...
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For I have known him, that he commands his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the...
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And YHWH says, “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah—because great; and their sin—because exceedingly griev...
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I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming to Me they have done completely—...
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and the men turn from there, and go toward Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before YHWH.
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And Abraham draws near and says, “Do You also consume righteous with wicked?
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Perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; do You also consume, and not bear with t...
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Far be it from You to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; tha...
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And YHWH says, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with...
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And Abraham answers and says, “Now behold, I have willed to speak to the Lord, and I am dust and ash...
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perhaps there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—do You destroy for five the whole of the city?...
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And he adds again to speak to Him and says, “Perhaps there are found there forty?” And He says, “I d...
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And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found the...
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And he says, “Now behold, I have willed to speak to the Lord: perhaps there are found there twenty?”...
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And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: perhaps ther...
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And YHWH goes on, when He has finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham has turned back to his place...
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