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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh,[a] and all who hear of it will laugh with me.(A) Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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  1. 21:6 Laugh: for the third time (cf. 17:17 and 18:12) there is laughter, playing on the similarity in Hebrew between the pronunciation of the name Isaac and words associated with laughter.