Genesis:1:3-2
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And God said : '
Let there be light .'
And there was light .
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And God saw the light ,
that it was good ;
and God divided the light from the darkness .
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And God called the light Day ,
and the darkness He called Night .
And there was evening and there was morning ,
one day .
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And God said : '
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters ,
and let it divide the waters from the waters .'
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And God made the firmament ,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament ;
and it was so .
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And God called the firmament Heaven .
And there was evening and there was morning ,
a second day .
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And God said : '
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place ,
and let the dry land appear .'
And it was so .
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And God called the dry land Earth ,
and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas ;
and God saw that it was good .
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And God said : '
Let the earth put forth grass ,
herb yielding seed ,
and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind ,
wherein is the seed thereof ,
upon the earth .'
And it was so .
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And the earth brought forth grass ,
herb yielding seed after its kind ,
and tree bearing fruit ,
wherein is the seed thereof ,
after its kind ;
and God saw that it was good .
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And there was evening and there was morning ,
a third day .
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And God said : '
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ;
and let them be for signs ,
and for seasons ,
and for days and years ;
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and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth .'
And it was so .
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And God made the two great lights :
the greater light to rule the day ,
and the lesser light to rule the night ;
and the stars .
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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth ,
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and to rule over the day and over the night ,
and to divide the light from the darkness ;
and God saw that it was good .
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And there was evening and there was morning ,
a fourth day .
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And God said : '
Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures ,
and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven .'
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And God created the great sea-monsters ,
and every living creature that creepeth ,
wherewith the waters swarmed ,
after its kind ,
and every winged fowl after its kind ;
and God saw that it was good .
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And God blessed them ,
saying : '
Be fruitful ,
and multiply ,
and fill the waters in the seas ,
and let fowl multiply in the earth .'
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And there was evening and there was morning ,
a fifth day .
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And God said : '
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind ,
cattle ,
and creeping thing ,
and beast of the earth after its kind .'
And it was so .
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And God made the beast of the earth after its kind ,
and the cattle after their kind ,
and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind ;
and God saw that it was good .
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And God said : '
Let us make man in our image ,
after our likeness ;
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea ,
and over the fowl of the air ,
and over the cattle ,
and over all the earth ,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth .'
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And God created man in His own image ,
in the image of God created He him ;
male and female created He them .
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And God blessed them ;
and God said unto them : '
Be fruitful ,
and multiply ,
and replenish the earth ,
and subdue it ;
and have dominion over the fish of the sea ,
and over the fowl of the air ,
and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth .'
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And God said : '
Behold ,
I have given you every herb yielding seed ,
which is upon the face of all the earth ,
and every tree ,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food ;
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and to every beast of the earth ,
and to every fowl of the air ,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth ,
wherein there is a living soul ,
I have given every green herb for food .'
And it was so .
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And God saw every thing that He had made ,
and ,
behold ,
it was very good .
And there was evening and there was morning ,
the sixth day .
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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah :
Shem ,
Ham ,
and Japheth ;
and unto them were sons born after the flood .
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The sons of Japheth :
Gomer ,
and Magog ,
and Madai ,
and Javan ,
and Tubal ,
and Meshech ,
and Tiras .
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And the sons of Gomer :
Ashkenaz ,
and Riphath ,
and Togarmah .
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And the sons of Javan :
Elishah ,
and Tarshish ,
Kittim ,
and Dodanim .
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Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands ,
every one after his tongue ,
after their families ,
in their nations .
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And the sons of Ham :
Cush ,
and Mizraim ,
and Put ,
and Canaan .
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And the sons of Cush :
Seba ,
and Havilah ,
and Sabtah ,
and Raamah ,
and Sabteca ;
and the sons of Raamah :
Sheba ,
and Dedan .
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And Cush begot Nimrod ;
he began to be a mighty one in the earth .
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD ;
wherefore it is said : '
Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD .'
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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel ,
and Erech ,
and Accad ,
and Calneh ,
in the land of Shinar .
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Out of that land went forth Asshur ,
and builded Nineveh ,
and Rehoboth-ir ,
and Calah ,
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and Resen between Nineveh and Calah--the same is the great city .
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And Mizraim begot Ludim ,
and Anamim ,
and Lehabim ,
and Naphtuhim ,
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and Pathrusim ,
and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and Caphtorim .
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And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn ,
and Heth ;
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and the Jebusite ,
and the Amorite ,
and the Girgashite ;
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and the Hivite ,
and the Arkite ,
and the Sinite ;
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and the Arvadite ,
and the Zemarite ,
and the Hamathite ;
and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad .
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And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon ,
as thou goest toward Gerar ,
unto Gaza ;
as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim ,
unto Lasha .
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These are the sons of Ham ,
after their families ,
after their tongues ,
in their lands ,
in their nations .
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And unto Shem ,
the father of all the children of Eber ,
the elder brother of Japheth ,
to him also were children born .
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The sons of Shem :
Elam ,
and Asshur ,
and Arpachshad ,
and Lud ,
and Aram .
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And the sons of Aram :
Uz ,
and Hul ,
and Gether ,
and Mash .
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And Arpachshad begot Shelah ;
and Shelah begot Eber .
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And unto Eber were born two sons ;
the name of the one was Peleg ;
for in his days was the earth divided ;
and his brother '
s name was Joktan .
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And Joktan begot Almodad ,
and Sheleph ,
and Hazarmaveth ,
and Jerah ;
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and Hadoram ,
and Uzal ,
and Diklah ;
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and Obal ,
and Abimael ,
and Sheba ;
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and Ophir ,
and Havilah ,
and Jobab ;
all these were the sons of Joktan .
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And their dwelling was from Mesha ,
as thou goest toward Sephar ,
unto the mountain of the east .
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These are the sons of Shem ,
after their families ,
after their tongues ,
in their lands ,
after their nations .
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These are the families of the sons of Noah ,
after their generations ,
in their nations ;
and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood .
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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech .
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And it came to pass ,
as they journeyed east ,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ;
and they dwelt there .
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And they said one to another : '
Come ,
let us make brick ,
and burn them thoroughly .'
And they had brick for stone ,
and slime had they for mortar .
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And they said : '
Come ,
let us build us a city ,
and a tower ,
with its top in heaven ,
and let us make us a name ;
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth .'
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower ,
which the children of men builded .
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And the LORD said : '
Behold ,
they are one people ,
and they have all one language ;
and this is what they begin to do ;
and now nothing will be withholden from them ,
which they purpose to do .
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Come ,
let us go down ,
and there confound their language ,
that they may not understand one another '
s speech .'
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ;
and they left off to build the city .
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Therefore was the name of it called Babel ;
because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth ;
and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .
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These are the generations of Shem .
Shem was a hundred years old ,
and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood .
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And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years ,
and begot Shelah .
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And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Shelah lived thirty years ,
and begot Eber .
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And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Eber lived four and thirty years ,
and begot Peleg .
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And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Peleg lived thirty years ,
and begot Reu .
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And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Reu lived two and thirty years ,
and begot Serug .
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And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Serug lived thirty years ,
and begot Nahor .
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And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years ,
and begot Terah .
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And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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And Terah lived seventy years ,
and begot Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
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Now these are the generations of Terah .
Terah begot Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran ;
and Haran begot Lot .
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And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity ,
in Ur of the Chaldees .
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And Abram and Nahor took them wives :
the name of Abram '
s wife was Sarai ;
and the name of Nahor '
s wife ,
Milcah ,
the daughter of Haran ,
the father of Milcah ,
and the father of Iscah .
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And Sarai was barren ;
she had no child .
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And Terah took Abram his son ,
and Lot the son of Haran ,
his son '
s son ,
and Sarai his daughter-in-law ,
his son Abram '
s wife ;
and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees ,
to go into the land of Canaan ;
and they came unto Haran ,
and dwelt there .
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years ;
and Terah died in Haran .
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Now the LORD said unto Abram : '
Get thee out of thy country ,
and from thy kindred ,
and from thy father '
s house ,
unto the land that I will show thee .
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And I will make of thee a great nation ,
and I will bless thee ,
and make thy name great ;
and be thou a blessing .
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And I will bless them that bless thee ,
and him that curseth thee will I curse ;
and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed .'
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So Abram went ,
as the LORD had spoken unto him ;
and Lot went with him ;
and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brother '
s son ,
and all their substance that they had gathered ,
and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ;
and into the land of Canaan they came .
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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem ,
unto the terebinth of Moreh .
And the Canaanite was then in the land .
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And the LORD appeared unto Abram ,
and said : '
Unto thy seed will I give this land ';
and he builded there an altar unto the LORD ,
who appeared unto him .
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And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el ,
and pitched his tent ,
having Beth-el on the west ,
and Ai on the east ;
and he builded there an altar unto the LORD ,
and called upon the name of the LORD .
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And Abram journeyed ,
going on still toward the South .
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And there was a famine in the land ;
and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ;
for the famine was sore in the land .
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And it came to pass ,
when he was come near to enter into Egypt ,
that he said unto Sarai his wife : '
Behold now ,
I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon .
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And it will come to pass ,
when the Egyptians shall see thee ,
that they will say :
This is his wife ;
and they will kill me ,
but thee they will keep alive .
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Say ,
I pray thee ,
thou art my sister ;
that it may be well with me for thy sake ,
and that my soul may live because of thee .'
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
when Abram was come into Egypt ,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .
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And the princes of Pharaoh saw her ,
and praised her to Pharaoh ;
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And he dealt well with Abram for her sake ;
and he had sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he-asses ,
and men-servants ,
and maid-servants ,
and she-asses ,
and camels .
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And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called Abram ,
and said : '
What is this that thou hast done unto me ?
why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife ?
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Why saidst thou :
She is my sister ?
so that I took her to be my wife ;
now therefore behold thy wife ,
take her ,
and go thy way .'
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And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him ;
and they brought him on the way ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had .
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And Abram went up out of Egypt ,
he ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
into the South .
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And Abram was very rich in cattle ,
in silver ,
and in gold .
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And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el ,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning ,
between Beth-el and Ai ;
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unto the place of the altar ,
which he had made there at the first ;
and Abram called there on the name of the LORD .
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And Lot also ,
who went with Abram ,
had flocks ,
and herds ,
and tents .
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And the land was not able to bear them ,
that they might dwell together ;
for their substance was great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram '
s cattle and the herdmen of Lot '
s cattle .
And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land .
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And Abram said unto Lot : '
Let there be no strife ,
I pray thee ,
between me and thee ,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ;
for we are brethren .
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Is not the whole land before thee ?
separate thyself ,
I pray thee ,
from me ;
if thou wilt take the left hand ,
then I will go to the right ;
or if thou take the right hand ,
then I will go to the left .'
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And Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and beheld all the plain of the Jordan ,
that it was well watered every where ,
before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
like the garden of the LORD ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as thou goest unto Zoar .
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So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan ;
and Lot journeyed east ;
and they separated themselves the one from the other .
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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan ,
and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain ,
and moved his tent as far as Sodom .
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Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly .
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And the LORD said unto Abram ,
after that Lot was separated from him : '
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and look from the place where thou art ,
northward and southward and eastward and westward ;
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for all the land which thou seest ,
to thee will I give it ,
and to thy seed for ever .
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth ;
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth ,
then shall thy seed also be numbered .
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Arise ,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ;
for unto thee will I give it .'
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And Abram moved his tent ,
and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre ,
which are in Hebron ,
and built there an altar unto the LORD .
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar ,
Arioch king of Ellasar ,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of Goiim ,
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that they made war with Bera king of Sodom ,
and with Birsha king of Gomorrah ,
Shinab king of Admah ,
and Shemeber king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela--the same is Zoar .
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All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim--the same is the Salt Sea .
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Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer ,
and in the thirteenth year they rebelled .
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And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him ,
and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth -
karnaim ,
and the Zuzim in Ham ,
and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim ,
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and the Horites in their mount Seir ,
unto El-paran ,
which is by the wilderness .
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And they turned back ,
and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Amorites ,
that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar .
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And there went out the king of Sodom ,
and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah ,
and the king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela--the same is Zoar ;
and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim ;
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against Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of Goiim ,
and Amraphel king of Shinar ,
and Arioch king of Ellasar ;
four kings against the five .
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Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits ;
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and they fell there ,
and they that remained fled to the mountain .
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And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and all their victuals ,
and went their way .
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And they took Lot ,
Abram '
s brother '
s son ,
who dwelt in Sodom ,
and his goods ,
and departed .
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And there came one that had escaped ,
and told Abram the Hebrew--now he dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite ,
brother of Eshcol ,
and brother of Aner ;
and these were confederate with Abram .
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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive ,
he led forth his trained men ,
born in his house ,
three hundred and eighteen ,
and pursued as far as Daniel .
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And he divided himself against them by night ,
he and his servants ,
and smote them ,
and pursued them unto Hobah ,
which is on the left hand of Damascus .
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And he brought back all the goods ,
and also brought back his brother Lot ,
and his goods ,
and the women also ,
and the people .
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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him ,
after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him ,
at the vale of Shaveh--the same is the King '
s Vale .
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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine ;
and he was priest of God the Most High .
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And he blessed him ,
and said : '
Blessed be Abram of God Most High ,
Maker of heaven and earth ;
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and blessed be God the Most High ,
who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand .'
And he gave him a tenth of all .
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram : '
Give me the persons ,
and take the goods to thyself .'
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom : '
I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD ,
God Most High ,
Maker of heaven and earth ,
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that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine ,
lest thou shouldest say :
I have made Abram rich ;
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save only that which the young men have eaten ,
and the portion of the men which went with me ,
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre ,
let them take their portion .'
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After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision ,
saying : '
Fear not ,
Abram ,
I am thy shield ,
thy reward shall be exceeding great .'
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And Abram said : '
O Lord GOD ,
what wilt Thou give me ,
seeing I go hence childless ,
and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus ?'
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And Abram said : '
Behold ,
to me Thou hast given no seed ,
and ,
lo ,
one born in my house is to be mine heir .'
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And ,
behold ,
the word of the LORD came unto him ,
saying : '
This man shall not be thine heir ;
but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir .'
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And He brought him forth abroad ,
and said : '
Look now toward heaven ,
and count the stars ,
if thou be able to count them ';
and He said unto him : '
So shall thy seed be .'
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And he believed in the LORD ;
and He counted it to him for righteousness .
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And He said unto him : '
I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees ,
to give thee this land to inherit it .'
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And he said : '
O Lord GOD ,
whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it ?'
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And He said unto him : '
Take Me a heifer of three years old ,
and a she-goat of three years old ,
and a ram of three years old ,
and a turtle-dove ,
and a young pigeon .'
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And he took him all these ,
and divided them in the midst ,
and laid each half over against the other ;
but the birds divided he not .
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And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses ,
and Abram drove them away .
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
when the sun was going down ,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram ;
and ,
lo ,
a dread ,
even a great darkness ,
fell upon him .
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And He said unto Abram : '
Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs ,
and shall serve them ;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years ;
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and also that nation ,
whom they shall serve ,
will I judge ;
and afterward shall they come out with great substance .
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But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace ;
thou shalt be buried in a good old age .
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And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither ;
for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full .'
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
when the sun went down ,
and there was thick darkness ,
behold a smoking furnace ,
and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces .
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In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram ,
saying : '
Unto thy seed have I given this land ,
from the river of Egypt unto the great river ,
the river Euphrates ;
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the Kenite ,
and the Kenizzite ,
and the Kadmonite ,
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and the Hittite ,
and the Perizzite ,
and the Rephaim ,
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and the Amorite ,
and the Canaanite ,
and the Girgashite ,
and the Jebusite .'
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Now Sarai Abram '
s wife bore him no children ;
and she had a handmaid ,
an Egyptian ,
whose name was Hagar .
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And Sarai said unto Abram : '
Behold now ,
the LORD hath restrained me from bearing ;
go in ,
I pray thee ,
unto my handmaid ;
it may be that I shall be builded up through her .'
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai .
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And Sarai Abram '
s wife took Hagar the Egyptian ,
her handmaid ,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan ,
and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife .
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And he went in unto Hagar ,
and she conceived ;
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
her mistress was despised in her eyes .
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And Sarai said unto Abram : '
My wrong be upon thee :
I gave my handmaid into thy bosom ;
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
I was despised in her eyes :
the LORD judge between me and thee .'
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But Abram said unto Sarai : '
Behold ,
thy maid is in thy hand ;
do to her that which is good in thine eyes .'
And Sarai dealt harshly with her ,
and she fled from her face .
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And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness ,
by the fountain in the way to Shur .
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And he said : '
Hagar ,
Sarai '
s handmaid ,
whence camest thou ?
and whither goest thou ?'
And she said : '
I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai .'
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And the angel of the LORD said unto her : '
Return to thy mistress ,
and submit thyself under her hands .'
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And the angel of the LORD said unto her : '
I will greatly multiply thy seed ,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude .
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And the angel of the LORD said unto her : '
Behold ,
thou art with child ,
and shalt bear a son ;
and thou shalt call his name Ishmael ,
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction .
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And he shall be a wild ass of a man :
his hand shall be against every man ,
and every man '
s hand against him ;
and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren .'
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And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her ,
Thou art a God of seeing ;
for she said : '
Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me ?'
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Wherefore the well was called '
Beer-lahai-roi ;
behold ,
it is between Kadesh and Bered .
*
And Hagar bore Abram a son ;
and Abram called the name of his son ,
whom Hagar bore ,
Ishmael .
*
And Abram was fourscore and six years old ,
when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram .
*
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine ,
the LORD appeared to Abram ,
and said unto him : '
I am God Almighty ;
walk before Me ,
and be thou wholehearted .
*
And I will make My covenant between Me and thee ,
and will multiply thee exceedingly .'
*
And Abram fell on his face ;
and God talked with him ,
saying :
* '
As for Me ,
behold ,
My covenant is with thee ,
and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations .
*
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram ,
but thy name shall be Abraham ;
for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee .
*
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful ,
and I will make nations of thee ,
and kings shall come out of thee .
*
And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant ,
to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee .
*
And I will give unto thee ,
and to thy seed after thee ,
the land of thy sojournings ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession ;
and I will be their God .'
*
And God said unto Abraham : '
And as for thee ,
thou shalt keep My covenant ,
thou ,
and thy seed after thee throughout their generations .
*
This is My covenant ,
which ye shall keep ,
between Me and you and thy seed after thee :
every male among you shall be circumcised .
*
And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin ;
and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you .
*
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you ,
every male throughout your generations ,
he that is born in the house ,
or bought with money of any foreigner ,
that is not of thy seed .
*
He that is born in thy house ,
and he that is bought with thy money ,
must needs be circumcised ;
and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant .
*
And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin ,
that soul shall be cut off from his people ;
he hath broken My covenant .'
*
And God said unto Abraham : '
As for Sarai thy wife ,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai ,
but Sarah shall her name be .
*
And I will bless her ,
and moreover I will give thee a son of her ;
yea ,
I will bless her ,
and she shall be a mother of nations ;
kings of peoples shall be of her .'
*
Then Abraham fell upon his face ,
and laughed ,
and said in his heart : '
Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old ?
and shall Sarah ,
that is ninety years old ,
bear ?'
*
And Abraham said unto God : '
Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee !'
*
And God said :
Nay ,
but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son ;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac ;
and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him .
*
And as for Ishmael ,
I have heard thee ;
behold ,
I have blessed him ,
and will make him fruitful ,
and will multiply him exceedingly ;
twelve princes shall he beget ,
and I will make him a great nation .
*
But My covenant will I establish with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year .'
*
And He left off talking with him ,
and God went up from Abraham .
*
And Abraham took Ishmael his son ,
and all that were born in his house ,
and all that were bought with his money ,
every male among the men of Abraham '
s house ,
and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day ,
as God had said unto him .
*
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
*
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
*
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised ,
and Ishmael his son .
*
And all the men of his house ,
those born in the house ,
and those bought with money of a foreigner ,
were circumcised with him .
*
And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre ,
as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ;
*
and he lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and ,
lo ,
three men stood over against him ;
and when he saw them ,
he ran to meet them from the tent door ,
and bowed down to the earth ,
*
and said : '
My lord ,
if now I have found favour in thy sight ,
pass not away ,
I pray thee ,
from thy servant .
*
Let now a little water be fetched ,
and wash your feet ,
and recline yourselves under the tree .
*
And I will fetch a morsel of bread ,
and stay ye your heart ;
after that ye shall pass on ;
forasmuch as ye are come to your servant .'
And they said : '
So do ,
as thou hast said .'
*
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah ,
and said : '
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal ,
knead it ,
and make cakes .'
*
And Abraham ran unto the herd ,
and fetched a calf tender and good ,
and gave it unto the servant ;
and he hastened to dress it .
*
And he took curd ,
and milk ,
and the calf which he had dressed ,
and set it before them ;
and he stood by them under the tree ,
and they did eat .
*
And they said unto him : '
Where is Sarah thy wife ?'
And he said : '
Behold ,
in the tent .'
*
And He said : '
I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round ;
and ,
lo ,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son .'
And Sarah heard in the tent door ,
which was behind him .--
*
Now Abraham and Sarah were old ,
and well stricken in age ;
it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women .--
*
And Sarah laughed within herself ,
saying : '
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure ,
my lord being old also ?'
*
And the LORD said unto Abraham : '
Wherefore did Sarah laugh ,
saying :
Shall I of a surety bear a child ,
who am old ?
*
Is any thing too hard for the LORD .
At the set time I will return unto thee ,
when the season cometh round ,
and Sarah shall have a son .'
*
Then Sarah denied ,
saying : '
I laughed not ';
for she was afraid .
And He said : '
Nay ;
but thou didst laugh .'
*
And the men rose up from thence ,
and looked out toward Sodom ;
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way .
*
And the LORD said : '
Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing ;
*
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation ,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ?
*
For I have known him ,
to the end that he may command his children and his household after him ,
that they may keep the way of the LORD ,
to do righteousness and justice ;
to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him .'
*
And the LORD said : '
Verily ,
the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great ,
and ,
verily ,
their sin is exceeding grievous .
*
I will go down now ,
and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it ,
which is come unto Me ;
and if not ,
I will know .'
*
And the men turned from thence ,
and went toward Sodom ;
but Abraham stood yet before the LORD .
*
And Abraham drew near ,
and said : '
Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked ?
*
Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city ;
wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ?
*
That be far from Thee to do after this manner ,
to slay the righteous with the wicked ,
that so the righteous should be as the wicked ;
that be far from Thee ;
shall not the judge of all the earth do justly ?'
*
And the LORD said : '
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city ,
then I will forgive all the place for their sake .'
*
And Abraham answered and said : '
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord ,
who am but dust and ashes .
*
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous ;
wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five ?'
And He said : '
I will not destroy it ,
if I find there forty and five .'
*
And he spoke unto Him yet again ,
and said : '
Peradventure there shall be forty found there .'
And He said : '
I will not do it for the forty '
s sake .'
*
And he said : '
Oh ,
let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak .
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there .'
And He said : '
I will not do it ,
if I find thirty there .'
*
And he said : '
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord .
Peradventure there shall be twenty found there .'
And He said : '
I will not destroy it for the twenty '
s sake .'
*
And he said : '
Oh ,
let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak yet but this once .
Peradventure ten shall be found there .'
And He said : '
I will not destroy it for the ten '
s sake .'
*
And the LORD went His way ,
as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham ;
and Abraham returned unto his place .
*
And the two angels came to Sodom at even ;
and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom ;
and Lot saw them ,
and rose up to meet them ;
and he fell down on his face to the earth ;
*
and he said : '
Behold now ,
my lords ,
turn aside ,
I pray you ,
into your servant '
s house ,
and tarry all night ,
and wash your feet ,
and ye shall rise up early ,
and go on your way .'
And they said : '
Nay ;
but we will abide in the broad place all night .'
*
And he urged them greatly ;
and they turned in unto him ,
and entered into his house ;
and he made them a feast ,
and did bake unleavened bread ,
and they did eat .
*
But before they lay down ,
the men of the city ,
even the men of Sodom ,
compassed the house round ,
both young and old ,
all the people from every quarter .
*
And they called unto Lot ,
and said unto him : '
Where are the men that came in to thee this night ?
bring them out unto us ,
that we may know them .'
*
And Lot went out unto them to the door ,
and shut the door after him .
*
And he said : '
I pray you ,
my brethren ,
do not so wickedly .
*
Behold now ,
I have two daughters that have not known man ;
let me ,
I pray you ,
bring them out unto you ,
and do ye to them as is good in your eyes ;
only unto these men do nothing ;
forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof .'
*
And they said : '
Stand back .'
And they said : '
This one fellow came in to sojourn ,
and he will needs play the judge ;
now will we deal worse with thee ,
than with them .'
And they pressed sore upon the man ,
even Lot ,
and drew near to break the door .
*
But the men put forth their hand ,
and brought Lot into the house to them ,
and the door they shut .
*
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness ,
both small and great ;
so that they wearied themselves to find the door .
*
And the men said unto Lot : '
Hast thou here any besides ?
son-in-law ,
and thy sons ,
and thy daughters ,
and whomsoever thou hast in the city ;
bring them out of the place ;
*
for we will destroy this place ,
because the cry of them is waxed great before the LORD ;
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it .'
*
And Lot went out ,
and spoke unto his sons-in-law ,
who married his daughters ,
and said : '
Up ,
get you out of this place ;
for the LORD will destroy the city .'
But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested .
*
And when the morning arose ,
then the angels hastened Lot ,
saying : '
Arise ,
take thy wife ,
and thy two daughters that are here ;
lest thou be swept away in the iniquity of the city .'
*
But he lingered ;
and the men laid hold upon his hand ,
and upon the hand of his wife ,
and upon the hand of his two daughters ;
the LORD being merciful unto him .
And they brought him forth ,
and set him without the city .
*
And it came to pass ,
when they had brought them forth abroad ,
that he said : '
Escape for thy life ;
look not behind thee ,
neither stay thou in all the Plain ;
escape to the mountain ,
lest thou be swept away .'
*
And Lot said unto them : '
Oh ,
not so ,
my lord ;
*
behold now ,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight ,
and thou hast magnified thy mercy ,
which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life ;
and I cannot escape to the mountain ,
lest the evil overtake me ,
and I die .
*
Behold now ,
this city is near to flee unto ,
and it is a little one ;
oh ,
let me escape thither--is it not a little one ?--
and my soul shall live .'
*
And he said unto him : '
See ,
I have accepted thee concerning this thing also ,
that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken .
*
Hasten thou ,
escape thither ;
for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither .'--
Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .--
*
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar .
*
Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ;
*
and He overthrow those cities ,
and all the Plain ,
and all the inhabitants of the cities ,
and that which grew upon the ground .
*
But his wife looked back from behind him ,
and she became a pillar of salt .
*
And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD .
*
And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and toward all the land of the Plain ,
and beheld ,
and ,
lo ,
the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace .
*
And it came to pass ,
when God destroyed the cities of the Plain ,
that God remembered Abraham ,
and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow ,
when He overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt .
*
And Lot went up out of Zoar ,
and dwelt in the mountain ,
and his two daughters with him ;
for he feared to dwell in Zoar ;
and he dwelt in a cave ,
he and his two daughters .
*
And the first-born said unto the younger : '
Our father is old ,
and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth .
*
Come ,
let us make our father drink wine ,
and we will lie with him ,
that we may preserve seed of our father .'
*
And they made their father drink wine that night .
And the first-born went in ,
and lay with her father ;
and he knew not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
*
And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that the first-born said unto the younger : '
Behold ,
I lay yesternight with my father .
Let us make him drink wine this night also ;
and go thou in ,
and lie with him ,
that we may preserve seed of our father .'
*
And they made their father drink wine that night also .
And the younger arose ,
and lay with him ;
and he knew not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
*
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father .
*
And the first-born bore a son ,
and called his name Moab--the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day .
*
And the younger ,
she also bore a son ,
and called his name Ben-ammi--the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day .
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