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


In Context

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.|

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, |I didn't laugh,| for she was afraid. He said, |No, but you did laugh.|

Genesis 18:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:13And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:13Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:13And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sera laugh, saying: Shall I who am an old woman bear a child indeed ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:13And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:13And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:13And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:13And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I certainly bear a child, who am old?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:13and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, 'After I have waxed old I have had pleasure! — my lord also is old!'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:13And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?