17 Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed(A) and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”

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19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered[a] his own body to be already dead(A) (since he was about a hundred years old)(B) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:19 Other mss read He did not consider

11 By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she[a] considered that the one who had promised was faithful.(A) 12 Therefore, from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:11 Or By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—received the ability to procreate since he

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