SARAH


Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

GEN 11:29  Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was 
Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of 
Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

30  Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.

31  Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his 
daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out 
from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they 
settled there.

12:5  He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had 
accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for 
the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

10  Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to 
live there for a while because the famine was severe.

11  As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know what 
a beautiful woman you are.

12  When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then 
they will kill me but will let you live.

13  Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and 
my life will be spared because of you."

14  When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very 
beautiful woman.

15  And when Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and 
she was taken into his palace.

16  He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and 
cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

17  But the LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household 
because of Abram's wife Sarai.

18  So Pharaoh summoned Abram. "What have you done to me?" he said. "Why 
didn't you tell me she was your wife?

19  Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? 
Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"

20  Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on 
his way, with his wife and everything he had.

16:1  Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an 
Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;

2  so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, 
sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram 
agreed to what Sarai said.

3  So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took 
her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

4  He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, 
she began to despise her mistress.

5  Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am 
suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is 
pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."

6  "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you 
think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

17:15  God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer 
to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

16  I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless 
her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come 
from her."

17  Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be 
born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of 
ninety?"

18  And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your 
blessing!"

19  Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you 
will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an 
everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will 
make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the 
father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

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

18:9  "Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked him. "There, in the tent," he 
said.

10  Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next 
year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the 
entrance to the tent, which was behind him.

11  Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and 
Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

12  So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my 
master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"

13  Then the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I 
really have a child, now that I am old?'

14  Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the 
appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son."

15  Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, "I did not laugh." But he said, 
"Yes, you did laugh."

20:1  Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and 
lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,

2  and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." Then 
Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

3  But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, "You are 
as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married 
woman."

4  Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he said, "Lord, will you destroy 
an innocent nation?

5  Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and didn't she also say, 'He 
is my brother'? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands."

6  Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know you did this with a 
clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is 
why I did not let you touch her.

7  Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you 
and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you 
and all yours will die."

8  Early the next morning Abimelech summoned all his officials, and when he 
told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid.

9  Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said, "What have you done to us? 
How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and 
my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done."

10  And Abimelech asked Abraham, "What was your reason for doing this?"

11  Abraham replied, "I said to myself, 'There is surely no fear of God in 
this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

12  Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not 
of my mother; and she became my wife.

13  And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, 
'This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, "He 
is my brother."'"

14  Then Abimelech brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and 
gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.

15  And Abimelech said, "My land is before you; live wherever you like."

16  To Sarah he said, "I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of 
silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with 
you; you are completely vindicated."

21:1  Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did 
for Sarah what he had promised.

2  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the 
very time God had promised him.

3  Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.

6  Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about 
this will laugh with me."

7  And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse 
children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

8  The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham 
held a great feast.

9  But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham 
was mocking,

10  and she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for 
that slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son 
Isaac."

11  The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.

12  But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your 
maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through 
Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

13  I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he 
is your offspring."

14  Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and 
gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with 
the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.

23:1  Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.

2  She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and 
Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

19  Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of 
Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

25:10  the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was 
buried with his wife Sarah.

HEB 11:11  By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself 
was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him 
faithful who had made the promise.

1PE 3:5  For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope 
in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own 
husbands,

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