"... Instead of pondering the possibility of sexual pleasure in her old age and withered state, the LXX-G Sarah merely comments on her lifetime problem. Furthermore, by replacing Sarah's thoughts of pleasure with an allusion to her continued barrenness, the LXX-G Sarah accepts the blame for the couple's lack of progeny. Like a proper Hellenistic matron, Sarah thinks not of her own sexual pleasure."

"... the (biblical) verses which they changed for the King Ptolemy in this way: And Sarah laughed among her relatives saying: "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have ednah"? The woman said: As long as the woman can give birth to a child, she has pieces of jewellery and I, after I am worn out, will I now have ednah? Ednah means "pieces of jewelry" as in the verse: I adorned you with jewellery (Ezekiel 16:11)."

"... Gen has, however, misread the Hebrew which might be paraphrased as "after I am worn out would I (again) experience (sexual) pleasure"? The Greek misread not as "my being worn out," but as the negative particle pronounced: bilti, a reading which the consonantal text permits, and so instead of "after I am worn out" has "not yet." What Gen has Sarra saying may be freely translated as: "Never yet has it happened to me up to the present, and (now) my husband is too old.""