Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,.... Not for joy of a son, and as pleased with it, believing so it would be; but as disbelieving it, and perhaps deriding it, and confuting it with a laugh, which, though it did not appear in her countenance, was secretly in her heart:saying, not with her mouth, but in her mind,after I am waxed old, being almost ninety years of age,shall I have pleasure?
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Genesis 18:12
Genesis 18:12
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