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17 And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old,[a] or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”[b] 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” 19 And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:17 Literally “to a man one hundred years old can he be born?”
  2. Genesis 17:17 Literally “can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?”