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They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent."
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The LORD said, "I will surely return to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door 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 hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son."
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But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "No, but 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 bless themselves by 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 to Abraham what he has promised him."