Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- BSB So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- NKJV Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- NASB So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
- NLT So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
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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?”
- 1 Pet 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
- Luke 1:18–20Zacharias 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.”
- Luke 1:34–35Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”
- Gen 18:13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
- Gen 21:6–7Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
- 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.
- Ps 126:2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
- Eph 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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