Sarah Laughs
9 "Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked him. "There, in the tent," he answered.
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The Lord said, "I will certainly come back to you in about a year's time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.
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Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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So she laughed to herself: "After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?"
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But the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Can I really have a baby when I'm old?'
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Is anything impossible for the Lord? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son."
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Sarah denied it. "I did not laugh," she said, because she was afraid. But He replied, "No, you did laugh."
Abraham's Plea for Sodom
16 The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.
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Then the Lord said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
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Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
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For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him."