Parallel Verses

Webster

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

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?

Julia Smith Translation

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

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 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I certainly bear a child, who am old?



Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

1 Peter 3:6

Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Genesis 18:13

And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I certainly bear a child, who am old?

Genesis 21:6-7

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Psalm 126:2

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Luke 1:18-20

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

Luke 1:34-35

Then said Mary to the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Hebrews 11:11-12

Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

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