18:3. And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.
18:4. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.
18:5. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.
18:6. Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.
18:7. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.
18:8. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.
18:9. And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent.
18:10. And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.
18:11. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.
18:12. And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?