Genesis 18:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 17:17 : 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
  • Heb 11:11-12 : 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
  • Heb 11:19 : 19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
  • Gen 17:24 : 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
  • Gen 31:35 : 35 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
  • Lev 15:19 : 19 "'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
  • Luke 1:18 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
  • Rom 4:18-21 : 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be." 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

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  • Gen 18:12-15
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    86%

    12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

    14Is 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."

    15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 21:1-2
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    81%

    1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

    2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    81%

    15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

    17Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Gen 18:9-10
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    9They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

    10He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

    18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 11:30
    77%

    30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 21:5-7
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    77%

    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

    6Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

    7She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Rom 4:19
    76%

    19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

  • Heb 11:11
    76%

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • Gen 24:1
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    1Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

  • Gen 16:1-2
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Gen 23:1-2
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    74%

    1Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

    2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  • Gen 24:36
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    36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 17:21
    73%

    21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Luke 1:7
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    7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

  • Gen 12:11
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    11It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

  • Rom 9:9
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    9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 17:24
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    24Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  • Gen 20:2
    71%

    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 25:7-8
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    7These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

    8Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

  • Gen 18:6
    70%

    6Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

  • Gen 23:19
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    19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

  • Gen 19:31
    69%

    31The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.