New King James Version

Genesis 18:5-18 New King James Version (NKJV)

5. And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.”They said, “Do as you have said.”

6. So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”

7. And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

8. So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

9. Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?”So he said, “Here, in the tent.”

10. And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

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

13. And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’

14. Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

15. But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid.And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”

16. Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.

17. And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

18. since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?