19 But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.[a] I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:19 = He Laughs

11 Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.[a] Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.[b](A) 12 So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”(B)

13 But the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old?’ 14 Is anything impossible for the Lord?(C) At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

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  1. Genesis 18:11 Lit days
  2. Genesis 18:11 Lit The way of women had ceased for Sarah

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.(A)

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