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10 Then one of them said, “I will certainly return to you in about a year’s time.[a] By then, your wife Sarah will have borne a son.”

Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were old—really old[b]—and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.[c] 12 That’s why Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I’m so old and my husband is old, too, am I going to have sex?”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:10 Lit. you according to the time of life
  2. Genesis 18:11 Lit. well advanced in days
  3. Genesis 18:11 Lit. The way of women has ceased for Sarah
  4. Genesis 18:12 Lit. pleasure