8. And he took curds 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. And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “See, in the tent.”
10. And He said, “I shall certainly return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!” And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.
11. Now Aḇraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women.
12. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?”
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,