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“AND THE LORD VISITED SARAH AS HE HAD SAID: thus fulfilling the words, “I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son” (Gen. 18, 10). A tradition teaches us that the term paqad (visited) is written in connection with women, and the term zakhar (remembered) in connection with men. Hence here it is written “And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said.” The expression “as he had said” proves that the words “and he said”, in the passage in Gen. 18, 10, refer to the Lord Himself, and no messenger.