Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old.

New American Standard Bible

Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

King James Version

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Holman Bible

So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”

International Standard Version

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?"

A Conservative Version

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old?

American Standard Version

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Amplified

So Sarah laughed to herself [when she heard the Lord’s words], saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband) being also old?”

Bible in Basic English

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

Darby Translation

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

King James 2000

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have grown old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall [this] pleasure be to me?"

Modern King James verseion

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?"

NET Bible

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?"

New Heart English Bible

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

The Emphasized Bible

So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?

Webster

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

World English Bible

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

Youngs Literal Translation

and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days -- the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂרה 
Sarah 
Usage: 38

צחק 
Tsachaq 
Usage: 13

קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

I am waxed old
בּלה 
Balah 
Usage: 15

עדנה עדן 
`eden 
Usage: 4

my lord
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Genesis 18:12

References

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Watsons

Context Readings

Isaac's Birth Promised

11 And Abraham and Sarah were old, being gone in days; the way according to women ceased to be to Sarah. 12 And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old. 13 And Jehovah will say to Abraham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall truly even I bring forth, and I have become old?



Cross References

Genesis 17:17

And Abraham will fall upon his face and laugh, and will say in his heart, Shall there be born to the son of a hundred years? and shall Sarah the daughter of ninety years, bring forth?

1 Peter 3:6

(As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror.

Genesis 18:13

And Jehovah will say to Abraham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall truly even I bring forth, and I have become old?

Genesis 21:6-7

And Sarah will say, God made me laugh; all hearing will laugh with me.

Psalm 126:2

Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.

Luke 1:18-20

And Zacharias said to the messenger, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in her days.

Luke 1:34-35

And Mary said to the messenger, How shall this be, since I. know not man?

Ephesians 5:33

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

Hebrews 11:11-12

By faith Sara also herself received power for the laying down of seed, and brought forth during the time of age, for she deemed him faithful having promised.

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