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Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
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The LORD said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
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Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid." He said, "No, but you did laugh."
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The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sedom. Avraham went with them to see them on their way.
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The LORD said, "Will I hide from Avraham what I do,
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seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the eretz will be blessed in him?
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For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Avraham that which he has spoken of him."
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The LORD said, "Because the cry of Sedom and `Amorah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
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I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
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The men turned from there, and went toward Sedom, but Avraham stood yet before the LORD.