11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old,(A) and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.(B)

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11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’(A)

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13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

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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.”(A)

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And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

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Isaac and Rebekah

24 Abraham was now very old,(A) and the Lord had blessed(B) him in every way.(C)

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24 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

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36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,(A) and he has given him everything he owns.(B)

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36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

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15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
    who made him very glad, saying,
    “A child is born to you—a son!”

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15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

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18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this?(A) I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”(B)

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18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

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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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19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

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23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh,(A) but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.(B)

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23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

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11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age,(A) was enabled to bear children(B) because she[a] considered him faithful(C) who had made the promise.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:11 Or By faith Abraham, even though he was too old to have children—and Sarah herself was not able to conceive—was enabled to become a father because he

11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

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