When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord,

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

the Angel who has protected me from all harm – bless these boys. May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth.”