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And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?
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And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?
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Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.
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Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.
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And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.
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And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
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Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
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For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham’s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
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And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
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I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
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And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.