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They said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he said, "There, in the tent."
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Then one said, "I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
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So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"
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The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, "Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
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Is anything too wonderful for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son."
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But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "Oh yes, you did laugh."
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Then the men set out from there, and they looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
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The Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
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seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."