Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”[a](A) She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him[b] in his old age.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:6 Isaac = He laughs; Gn 17:19
  2. Genesis 21:7 Sam, Tg Jonathan; MT omits him

Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,(A) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”(B)

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19 He considered[a] his own body to be already dead(A) (since he was about 100 years old)(B) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb,(C) without weakening in the faith.

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  1. Romans 4:19 Other mss read He did not consider

19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead(A)—since he was about a hundred years old(B)—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.(C)

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