While I was living near the trees of Mamre, I was sitting at the entrance of my tent, when the Lord appeared to me. I saw three men walking towards me and when I saw them, I quickly went from my tent to meet them and I bowed to them. I told them I would bring water to wash their feet and that they could rest under a tree. I hurried to my tent and I told my wife Sarah to make some bread and some servants prepared a calf, so they could have a meal to eat. While they were eating, they asked me where my wife was, so I told them that she was in the tent. One of the men told me that they would return to me at around the same time next year and by that time, my wife would give birth to a son. Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent and she laughed when she heard that she would be bearing a son. Me and Sarah were both very old and she was already past the age of childbearing. God asked me why Sarah laughed and He said that nothing is too hard for the Lord. Sarah was afraid and she lied and said that she did not laugh. God told me that when He would return at the appointed time next year, Sarah would have given birth to a son.
