Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
6 Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."
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So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
7 Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready.
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Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
8 He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.
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He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
9 Then they asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "She is there in the tent," he answered.
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“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
10 One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
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Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
11 Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
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Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
12 So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too."
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So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
13 Then the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, "Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
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Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
15 Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. "I didn't laugh," she said. "Yes, you did," he replied. "You laughed."
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Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
16 Then the men left and went to a place where they could look down at Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
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When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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