8. He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
9. They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”
10. He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
12. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13. Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
14. Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
15. Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
16. The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
17. Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
18. since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?