Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
WEB
And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
YLT
And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him;
DBT
Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)