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So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
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Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" So he said, "Here, in the tent."
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And He said, "I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son." (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
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And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?'
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Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."
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But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh!"
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Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
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And the Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?