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God further said to Abraham: As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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Abraham fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”
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God replied: Even so, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son, and you shall call him Isaac. It is with him that I will maintain my covenant as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.
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But my covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time next year.
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Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick, three measures of bran flour! Knead it and make bread.”
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“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There in the tent,” he replied.
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One of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and Sarah will then have a son.” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, just behind him.
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years, and Sarah had stopped having her menstrual periods.
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So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, am I still to have sexual pleasure?”
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But the Lord said to Abraham: “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really bear a child, old as I am?’
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Is anything too marvelous for the Lord to do? At the appointed time, about this time next year, I will return to you, and Sarah will have a son.”
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Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But he said, “Yes, you did.”
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Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
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Then Abimelech took flocks and herds and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham; and he restored his wife Sarah to him.
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To Sarah he said: “I hereby give your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This will preserve your honor before all who are with you and will exonerate you before everyone.”
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for the Lord had closed every womb in Abimelech’s household on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah.
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Chapter 21
Birth of Isaac. The Lord took note of Sarah as he had said he would; the Lord did for her as he had promised.
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Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time that God had stated.
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Abraham gave the name Isaac to this son of his whom Sarah bore him.
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Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh, and all who hear of it will laugh with me.
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Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing with her son Isaac;
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But God said to Abraham: Do not be distressed about the boy or about your slave woman. Obey Sarah, no matter what she asks of you; for it is through Isaac that descendants will bear your name.
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Chapter 23
Purchase of a Burial Plot. The span of Sarah’s life was one hundred and twenty-seven years.
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After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre—now Hebron—in the land of Canaan.
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My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
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Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.
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the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites; there he was buried next to his wife Sarah.
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Descendants of Ishmael. These are the descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.
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There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, and so are Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there, too, I buried Leah—