Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

Sarah lived 127 years. ¹ 

The Lord visited ¹  Sarah just as he had said he would and did ²  for Sarah what he had promised. ³ 

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Then she ¹  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. ² 

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, ¹  in the tent.”

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. ¹  Everyone who hears about this ²  will laugh ³  with me.”

But Sarah noticed ¹  the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. ² 

This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. ¹  There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, ¹  whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

One of them ¹  said, “I will surely return ²  to you when the season comes round again, ³  and your wife Sarah will have a son!” ⁴  (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him. ⁵ 

For this is what the promise declared: ¹  “About a year from now ²  I will return and Sarah will have a son.” ³ 

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. ¹ 

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; ¹  Sarah ²  will be her name.

Without being weak in faith, he considered ¹  his own body as dead ²  (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take ¹  three measures ²  of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” ³ 

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why ¹  did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really ²  have a child when I am old?’

Is anything impossible ¹  for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.” ²