Kejadian 18:12

18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, ¹  “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, ²  especially when my husband is old too?” ³ 

Kejadian 18:16

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

18:16 When the men got up to leave, ⁴  they looked out over ⁵  Sodom. (Now ⁶  Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.) ⁷ 

[18:12]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[18:12]  ² tn It has been suggested that this word should be translated “conception,” not “pleasure.” See A. A. McIntosh, “A Third Root ‘adah in Biblical Hebrew,” VT 24 (1974): 454-73.

[18:12]  ³ tn The word “too” has been added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “And the men arose from there.”

[18:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “toward the face of.”

[18:16]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive parenthetical clause sets the stage for the following speech.

[18:16]  ⁷ tn The Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to lead out, to send out, to expel”; here it is used in the friendly sense of seeing the visitors on their way.