8 So ahe took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
9 Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” So he said, “Here, ain the tent.”
10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you aaccording to the time of life, and behold, bSarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)
11 Now aAbraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and1 Sarah bhad passed the age of childbearing.
12 Therefore Sarah alaughed within herself, saying, b“After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my clord being old also?”
13 And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’
14 aIs anything too hard for the Lord? bAt the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them ato send them on the way.
17 And the Lord said, a“Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be ablessed in him?
19 For I have known him, in order athat he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
20 And the Lord said, “Because athe outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their bsin is very grave,
21 aI will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, bI will know.”
22 Then the men turned away from there aand went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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