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And the Lord appeared unto me in the plains of Mamre and he said unto me, Behold, Ishmael shall not be thine heir neither Eliezer, for Sarah will I bless and I will give thee a son of her.
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She shall be the mother of nations and kings and people shall be of her.
3
Then I fell upon my face before the Lord and I rejoiced and I said unto him, O Lord, it is a wondrous thing that this promise should be fulfilled when I am an hundred years old and Sarah is ninety.
4
And the Lord said, Prepare thine heart to receive it, and he told me many secret things concerning the conception of the child which are great mysteries to the unenlightened, but the elect shall know them, and I rejoiced therein.