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What does Genesis 18:15 mean?
"Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”"
— Genesis 18:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
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