12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, |After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?|


In Context

9 They asked him, |Where is Sarah, your wife?| He said, |See, in the tent.|

10 He said, |I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.| Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, |After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?|

13 Yahweh said to Abraham, |Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.|

Genesis 18:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:12So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:12And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:12And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:12And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:12And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:12and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days — the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?