²⁶ As morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light.

⁶ Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters as long as you do what is good and never let fears alarm you.^(A)

²⁷ In the morning her master got up, opened the doors of the house, and when he went out to go on his way, there was the woman, his concubine, lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

³ Then her husband set out after her, to speak tenderly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. When he reached^[a] her father’s house, the young woman’s father saw him and came with joy to meet him.^(A)

¹² So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”^(A)