<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed<n id="1" /> as he said to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Can<n id="3" /> a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old?<n id="4" /> Can Sarah<n id="5" /> bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.