Genesis 18:13-14
Context18:13 The Lord said to Abraham, “Why 1 did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really 2 have a child when I am old?’ 18:14 Is anything impossible 3 for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.” 4
Genesis 16:10
Context16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, 5 “so that they will be too numerous to count.” 6
Genesis 22:15-16
Context22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ 7 decrees the Lord, 8 ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
[18:13] 1 tn Heb “Why, this?” The demonstrative pronoun following the interrogative pronoun is enclitic, emphasizing the
[18:13] 2 tn The Hebrew construction uses both הַאַף (ha’af) and אֻמְנָם (’umnam): “Indeed, truly, will I have a child?”
[18:14] 3 tn The Hebrew verb פָּלָא (pala’) means “to be wonderful, to be extraordinary, to be surpassing, to be amazing.”
[18:14] 4 sn Sarah will have a son. The passage brings God’s promise into clear focus. As long as it was a promise for the future, it really could be believed without much involvement. But now, when it seemed so impossible from the human standpoint, when the
[16:10] 5 tn Heb “The
[16:10] 6 tn Heb “cannot be numbered because of abundance.”
[22:16] 7 tn Heb “By myself I swear.”
[22:16] 8 tn Heb “the oracle of the