¹⁰ He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

² Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

²¹ But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."

¹⁹ God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

²³ However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

⁹ For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

¹³ But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

¹⁶ He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.

¹⁷ The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.

³ The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

⁴ Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

⁵ for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

¹⁵ The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

¹⁶ and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

¹³ Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

¹⁴ 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."

¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

¹⁰ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."