Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Parallel translations
- KJV Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- BSB And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- NKJV Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- NASB Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
- NLT Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
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- Gen 17:17Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
- Heb 11:11–12By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- Luke 1:36Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Rom 4:18–21Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
- Gen 17:24Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Luke 1:7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
- Luke 1:18Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
- Lev 15:19“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
- Heb 11:19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
- Gen 31:35She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
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