13. And יהוה said to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since I am old?’
14. “Is any matter too hard for יהוה? At the appointed time I am going to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to 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. And the men rose up from there and looked toward Seḏom, and Aḇraham went with them to send them away.
17. And יהוה said, “Shall I hide from Aḇraham what I am doing,
18. since Aḇraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19. “For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.”
20. And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against Seḏom and Amorah is great, and because their sin is very heavy,
21. “I am going down now to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know.”
22. So the men turned away from there and went toward Seḏom, but יהוה still stood before Aḇraham.