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 between the light and the darkness .
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And God called the light Day ,
and the darkness he called Night .
And it was evening and it was morning ,
the first day .
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And God said ,
Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters ,
and let it divide between waters and waters .
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And God made the expansion ,
and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion :
and it was so .
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And God called the expansion Heaven .
And it was evening and it was morning ,
the 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 be visible :
and it was so .
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And God called the dry land Earth ;
and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas :
and God saw that it was good .
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And God said ,
Let the earth bring forth grass ,
herbs yielding seed ,
fruit
trees yielding fruit after their kind ,
in which its seed is upon the earth :
and it was so .
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And the earth brought forth grass ,
herbs yielding seed after their kind ,
and trees yielding fruit ,
in which its seed is after their kind :
and God saw that it was good .
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And it was evening and it was morning ,
the third day .
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And God said ,
Let there be lights in the expansion of the heaven to divide between the day and 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 expansion 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 expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth ,
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And to rule by day and by night ,
and to divide between the light and the darkness :
and God saw that it was good .
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And it was evening and it was morning ,
the fourth day .
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And God said ,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life ,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven .
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And God created the great sea
monsters ,
and every living creature that moveth ,
which the waters brought forth abundantly after their 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 the fowl multiply on the earth .
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And it was evening and it was morning ,
the fifth day .
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And God said ,
Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind ,
cattle ,
and creeping things ,
and beasts of the earth after their kind :
and it was so .
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And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind ,
and the cattle after their kind ,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth 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 they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea ,
and over the fowl of the heaven ,
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 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 fill the earth ,
and subdue it ;
and have dominion over the fish of the sea ,
and over the fowl of the heaven ,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth .
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And God said ,
Behold I have given unto you every herb bearing seed ,
which is upon the face of all the earth ,
and every tree on 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 heaven ,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth ,
wherein there is life ,
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 it was evening and it 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 Tirass .
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And the sons of Gomer :
Ashkenaz ,
Riphath ,
and Togarmah .
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And Javan
s sons :
Elishah ,
Tarshish ,
Kittim ,
and Dodanim .
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From these were separated the isles of the nations 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 Mizrayim ,
Put and Canaan .
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And the sons of Cush :
Seba and Havilah ,
Sabtah and Raamah ,
and Sabtecha ;
and the sons of Raamah :
Sheba and Dedan .
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And Cush begat Nimrod ;
he began to be a mighty man on the earth .
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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord :
wherefore it is said ,
Even as 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 built Nineveh ,
and the city of Rechoboth ,
and Calach .
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And Ressen between Nineveh and Calach :
the same is the great city .
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And Mizrayim begat the Ludim ,
and Anamim ,
and Lehabim ,
and Naphtuchim .
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And the Pethrussim ,
and Casluchin ,
and the Caphtorim .
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And Canaan begat Sidon his first
born ,
and Heth ,
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And the Jebusite ,
and the Emorite ,
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 Canaanites spread abroad .
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon ,
as thou comest to Gerar ,
unto Gazzah ;
as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and Admah ,
and Zeboyim ,
even unto Lesha .
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These are the sons of Ham ,
after their families ,
after their tongues ,
in their countries ,
in their nations .
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But unto Shem also ,
the father of all the children of Eber ,
the brother of Japheth the elder ,
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 children of Aram :
Uz ,
and Hul ,
and Gether ,
and Mash .
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And Arpachshad begat Shelach ;
and Shelach begat Eber .
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And unto Eber were born two sons ;
the name of one was Peleg ,
for in his days was the earth divided ;
and his brother
s name was Joktan .
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And Joktan begat Almodad ,
and Sheleph ,
and Hazarmaveth ,
and Jerach ,
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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 unto Sephar ,
the mount 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 from these were the nations separated on the earth after the flood .
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And the whole earth was of one language ,
and of one kind of words .
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And it came to pass ,
as they journeyed toward the east ,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ,
and they dwelt there .
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And they said to one another ,
Go to ,
let us make bricks ,
and burn them thoroughly .
And thus the brick served them for stone ,
and slime served them for mortar .
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And they said ,
Go to ,
let us build ourselves a city ,
and a tower ,
the top of which may reach unto heaven ;
and let us make ourselves 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 man were building .
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And the Lord said ,
Behold ,
it is one people ,
and they have all one language ,
and this is the first thing they undertake to do ;
and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do ?
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Go to ,
let us go down ,
and confound there their language ,
that they may not understand one another
s speech .
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth ;
and they left off to build the city .
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel ,
because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth ;
and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth .
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These are the generations of Shem :
Shem ,
when a hundred years old ,
begat Arpachshad ,
two years after the flood .
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And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years ,
and begat Shelach .
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And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and three years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Shelach lived thirty years ,
and begat Eber .
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And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Eber lived four and thirty years ,
and begat Peleg .
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And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Peleg lived thirty years ,
and begat Reu .
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And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Reu lived two and thirty years ,
and begat Serug .
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And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Serug lived thirty years ,
and begat Nachor .
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And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Nachor lived nine and twenty years ,
and begat Terach .
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And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years ;
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Terach lived seventy years ,
and begat Abram ,
Nachor ,
and Haran .
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Now these are the generations of Terach :
Terach begat Abram ,
Nachor ,
and Haran ;
and Haran begat Lot .
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And Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his nativity ,
in Ur of the Chaldees .
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And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives ;
the name of Abram
s wife was Sarai ;
and the name of Nachor
s wife was Milcah ,
the daughter of Haran ,
the father of Milcah ,
and the father of Yiscah .
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But Sarai was barren ;
she had no child .
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And Terach took Abram his son ,
and Lot ,
the son of Haran ,
his son
s son ,
and Sarai his daughter
in
law ,
the wife of his son Abram ;
and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees ,
to go into the land of Canaan ;
and they came unto Charan ,
and dwelt there .
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And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years ;
and Terach died in Charan .
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Now the Lord had said unto Abram ,
Get thee out of thy country ,
and out of thy birthplace ,
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 thou shalt be a blessing :
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And I will bless those that bless thee ,
and him that curseth thee ,
will I curse ;
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed .
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So Abram departed ,
as the Lord had spoken unto him ,
and Lot went with him ;
and Abram was seventy and five years old at his departure out of Charan .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brother
s son ,
and all their substance that they had acquired ,
and the persons that they had obtained in Charan ;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ;
and they came into the land of Canaan .
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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem ,
unto the plain 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 built there an altar unto the Lord ,
who had appeared unto him .
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And he removed from there 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 built there an altar unto the Lord ,
and called upon the name of the Lord .
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And Abram journeyed farther ,
still going on toward the south .
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And there arose a famine in the land :
and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ;
for the famine was grievous 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 woman of handsome appearance :
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And it may come to pass ,
when the Egyptians shall see thee ,
that they will say ,
This is his wife ;
and they may kill me ,
but thee they will save alive .
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Say then ,
I pray thee ,
thou art my sister ,
that it may go well with me for thy sake ,
and my soul live because of thee .
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And it came to pass ,
when Abram was come into Egypt ,
that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .
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The princes also of Pharaoh saw her ,
and commended her to Pharaoh ;
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh
s house .
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And he did well to Abram for her sake ;
and he received sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he
asses ,
and men
servants ,
and maid
servants ,
and she
asses ,
and camels .
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But 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 thou hast done unto me ?
Why didst thou not tell me that she is thy wife ?
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Why saidst thou ,
She is my sister ?
and so I took her to me for a wife ;
now ,
therefore ,
behold ,
here is thy wife ,
take her ,
and go thy way .
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And Pharaoh commanded some men concerning him ,
who accompanied him 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 arose a strife between the herdmen of Abram
s cattle ,
and the herdmen of Lot
s cattle ;
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled 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 near relatives .
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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 depart to the right ,
then I will go to the left .
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And Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and beheld all the plain of Jordan ,
that it was well watered everywhere ;
before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
like the garden of the Lord ,
like the land of Egypt ,
till thou comest unto Zoar .
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Then Lot chose himself all the plain of 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 pitched his tents ,
till close to Sodom .
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But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly .
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And the Lord said unto Abram ,
after Lot was separated from him ,
Lift up now thy 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 forever .
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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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Then Abram pitched his tent ,
and came and dwelt in the grove of Mamre ,
which is in Hebron ;
and he built there an altar unto the Lord .
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And it came to pass ,
in the day of Amraphel king of Shinar ,
Arioch king of Ellasar ,
Kedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of Goyim ;
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That these made war with Bera king of Sodom ,
and with Birsha king of Gomorrah ,
Shinab king of Admah ,
and Shemeber king of Zeboyim ,
and the king of Bela ,
which is Zoar .
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All these joined together in the vale of Siddim ,
which is now the salt sea .
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Twelve years had they served Kedorlaomer ,
but in the thirteenth year they rebelled .
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And in the fourteenth year came Kedorlaomer ,
and the kings that were with him ,
and they smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth
karnayim ,
and the Zuzim in Ham ,
and the Emim in Shaveh
kiriathayim ,
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And the Horites in their mountain Seir ,
unto El
paran ,
which is by the wilderness .
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And they returned and came to Enmishpat ,
which is Kadesh ,
and smote all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Emorites ,
that dwelt in Hazezon
tamar .
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And then went out the king of Sodom ,
and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah ,
and the king of Zeboyim ,
and the king of Bela ,
and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim ;
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With Kedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and with Tidal king of Goyim ,
and Amraphel king of Shinar ,
and Arioch king of Ellasar ;
four kings with five .
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And the vale of Siddim was full of slime
pits ;
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and fell therein ;
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 it to Abram the Hebrew ;
but he dwelt in the grove of Mamre the Emorite ,
brother of Eshcol ,
and brother of Aner ,
and these were confederates of Abram .
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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive ,
he armed his trained servants ;
born in his own house ,
three hundred and eighteen ,
and pursued them into Daniel .
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And he divided himself against them ,
he and his servants ,
by night ,
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 he also brought again his brother Lot ,
and his goods ,
and also the women ,
and the people .
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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh ,
which is the kings
dale .
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And Malkizidek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine ;
and he was a priest of the most high God .
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And he blessed him ,
and said ,
Blessed be Abram of the most high God ,
the possessor of heaven and earth .
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And blessed he the most high God ,
who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand .
And he gave him tithes of all .
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram ,
Give me the persons ,
and the goods take to thyself .
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom ,
I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord ,
the most high God ,
the possessor of heaven and earth ,
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That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe
latchet ,
and that I will not take any thing that is thine ;
lest thou shouldst 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 who went with me ,
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre
these may 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 exceedingly great .
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And Abram said ,
Lord God ,
what wilt thou give me ,
seeing I go childless ,
and the steward 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 will be my heir .
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And behold ,
the word of the Lord came unto him ,
saying ,
This one shall not be thy heir ;
but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir .
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And he brought him forth abroad ,
and said ,
Look now toward the 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 accounted 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 unto thee this land ,
to inherit it .
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And he said ,
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 unto him all these ,
and divided them in the midst ,
and laid each piece one opposite the other ;
but the birds he did not divide .
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And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses ;
but Abram drove them away .
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And when the sun was about going down ,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram ;
and lo ,
a horror ,
dark and great ,
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 which is not theirs ,
and they will make them serve ,
and they will afflict them four hundred years .
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And also that nation whom they shall serve ,
will I judge ;
and afterward shall they go out with great substance .
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But thou shalt come to thy fathers in peace ;
thou shalt be buried in a good old age .
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Yet the fourth generation shall come hither again ;
for the iniquity of the Emorites will not be full until then .
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And it came to pass ,
when the sun had gone down ,
and it was dark ,
that behold a smoking furnace ,
and a burning flame ,
which passed between those pieces .
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On the same 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 Kenites ,
and the Kenizzites ,
and the Kadmonites ,
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And the Hittites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Rephaim ,
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And the Emorites ,
and the Canaanites ,
and the Girgashites ,
and the Jebusites .
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Now Sarai ,
Abram
s wife ,
bore him no children ;
and she had an Egyptian handmaid ,
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 maid ;
it may be that I may obtain children by her .
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai .
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And Sarai ,
Abram
s wife ,
took Hagar ,
the Egyptian ,
her maid ,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan ,
and gave her to her husband Abram 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 became of little esteem in her eyes .
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And Sarai said unto Abram ,
I suffer wrong through thee ;
I have placed my maid into thy bosom ;
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
I became of little esteem in her eyes ;
may 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 as it pleaseth thee .
And when Sarai dealt hardly with her ,
she fled from her face .
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And an angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness ,
by the fountain on the way to Shur .
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And he said ,
Hagar ,
Sarai
s maid ,
whence camest thou ?
and whither wilt thou go ?
And she said ,
From the face of my mistress Sarai I am fleeing .
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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 multiply thy seed exceedingly ,
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 wilt bear a son ,
and thou shalt call his name Ishmael ;
because the Lord hath heard thy affliction .
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And he will be a wild man ;
his hand will be against every man ,
and every man
s hand against him ;
and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell .
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And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her ,
Thou art an all
seeing God ;
for she said ,
Have I not also seen here a vision after he appeared to me ?
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Wherefore the well was called Beerlachai
roi :
behold ,
it is between Kadesh and Bared .
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And Hagar bore Abram a son ;
and Abram called the name of his son ,
whom Hagar bore ,
Ishmael .
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And Abram was eighty and six years old ,
when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram .
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And when Abram was ninety and nine years old ,
the Lord appeared to Abram ,
and said unto him ,
I am the Almighty God :
walk before me ,
and be thou perfect .
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And I will make my covenant between me and thee ,
and I will multiply thee exceedingly .
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And Abram fell on his face ,
and God spoke with him ,
saying ,
*
As for me ,
behold my covenant is with thee ,
and thou shalt become the father of a multitude of nations .
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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 .
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And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful ,
and I will cause thee to become nations ;
and kings shall come out of thee .
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant :
to be a God unto thee ,
and to thy seed after thee .
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And I will give unto thee ,
and to thy seed after thee ,
the land wherein thou sojournest ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession ;
and I will be their God .
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And God said unto Abraham ,
But thou ,
for thy part ,
shalt keep my covenant ,
thou and thy seed after thee ,
in their generations .
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This is my covenant ,
which ye shall keep ,
between me and between you ,
and between thy seed after thee :
Every man
child among you shall be circumcised .
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ;
and this shall serve as the token of the covenant between me and you .
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And at eight days old shall every man
child in your generations be circumcised among you ,
he that is born in the house ,
or bought with money of any stranger ,
who is not of thy seed .
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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 .
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And any uncircumcised male ,
who circumciseth not the flesh of his foreskin ,
that soul shall be cut off from his people ;
he hath broken my covenant .
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And God said unto Abraham ,
As for Sarai thy wife ,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai ,
but Sarah shall her name be .
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And I will bless her ,
and give thee also a son of her ;
yea I will bless her ,
and she shall become a mother of nations ;
kings of people shall spring from her .
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Then Abraham fell upon his face ,
and laughed ;
and he said in his heart ,
Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old ?
and shall Sarah ,
who is ninety years old ,
bear ?
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And Abraham said unto God ,
O that Ishmael might live before thee !
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And God said ,
Truly ,
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 .
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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 of him a great nation .
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year .
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And when he had left off talking with him ,
God went up from Abraham .
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And Abraham now 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 he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the selfsame day ,
as God had spoken unto him .
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And Abraham was ninety and nine years old ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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And Ishmael his son ,
was thirteen years old ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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On the self
same day was Abraham circumcised ,
with Ishmael his son .
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And all the men of his house ,
born in the house ,
and bought with money of the stranger ,
were circumcised with him .
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And the Lord appeared unto him in the grove of Mamre ;
while he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day .
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And he lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and lo ,
three men stood near him ;
and when he saw them ,
he ran to meet them from the door of the tent ,
and bowed himself to the ground ;
*
And he said ,
My Lord ,
if now I have found favor in thy eyes ,
pass not away ,
I pray thee ,
from thy servant .
*
Let a little water ,
I pray you ,
be fetched ,
and wash your feet ,
and rest yourselves under the tree .
*
And I will fetch a morsel of bread ,
and comfort ye your heart ,
after that ye may pass on ;
since ye have once passed by your servant .
And they said ,
So do ,
as thou hast spoken .
*
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah ,
and said ,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal ,
knead it ,
and make cakes .
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And Abraham ran unto the herd ,
and fetched a calf tender and good ,
and gave it unto a young man ,
and he hastened to dress it .
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And he took cream 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 at this time next year :
and lo ,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son .
And Sarah heard it at the door of the tent ,
which was behind him .
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in years ;
it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women .
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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself ,
saying ,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure ,
my lord also being old !
*
And the Lord said unto Abraham ,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh ,
saying ,
Shall I of a surety bear a child ,
since I am old ?
*
Is anything too hard for the Lord ?
At the time appointed I will return unto thee ,
at this time next year ,
and Sarah shall have a son .
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Then Sarah denied ,
saying ,
I laughed not ;
for she was afraid ;
but he said ,
Nay ;
indeed thou didst laugh .
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And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom ;
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way .
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And the Lord said ,
Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about 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 know him ,
that he will command his children and his household after him ,
that they shall keep the way of the Lord ,
to do righteousness and justice ;
in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him .
*
And the Lord said ,
Because the cry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great ,
and because their sin is very grievous :
*
I will go down now ,
and see if they have done according to the cry against them ,
which is come unto me ,
destruction ;
and if not ,
I will know it .
*
And the men turned their faces from there ,
and went toward Sodom ;
but Abraham stood yet before the Lord .
*
And Abraham drew near ,
and said ,
Wilt thou then destroy the righteous also with the wicked ?
*
Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city ;
wilt thou then also destroy and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein ?
*
Far be it from thee to do after this manner ,
to slay the righteous with the wicked ,
and that the righteous should be as the wicked ;
far be this from thee ;
shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice ?
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And the Lord said ,
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city ,
then will I spare all of the place for their sake .
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And Abraham answered and said ,
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord ,
although I am but dust and ashes :
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Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous ;
wilt thou then destroy all the city for the these five ?
And he said ,
I will not destroy ,
if I find there forty and five .
*
And he spoke yet again unto him ,
and said ,
Peradventure there will be found there forty .
And he said ,
I will not do it for the sake of the forty .
*
And he said ,
Oh ,
let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak :
Peradventure there will be found there thirty .
And he said ,
I will not do it ,
if I find there thirty .
*
And he said ,
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord :
Peradventure there will be found there twenty .
And he said ,
I will not destroy for the sake of the twenty .
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And he said ,
Oh ,
let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak yet but this once :
Peradventure there will be found there ten .
And he said ,
I will not destroy ,
for the sake of the ten .
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And the Lord went away ,
when he had finished speaking with Abraham ;
and Abraham returned unto his place .
*
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening ,
and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom ;
and when Lot saw them he rose up to meet them ,
and he bowed himself with his face to the ground .
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And he said ,
Behold now ,
my lords ,
turn in ,
I pray you ,
into your servant
s house ,
and tarry all night ,
and wash your feet ,
and ye can rise up early ,
and go on your way .
And they said ,
Nay ;
but we will abide in the street all night .
*
And he pressed upon them greatly ,
and they turned in unto him ,
and entered into his house ;
and he made them a feast ,
and baked unleavened bread ,
and they did eat .
*
But before they had lain down ,
the men of the city ,
even the men of Sodom ,
compassed the house round ,
both old and young ,
all the people from every quarter :
*
And they called unto Lot ,
and said unto him ,
Where are the men who came in to thee this night ?
bring them out unto us ,
that we may know them .
*
And Lot went out unto them ,
at the entrance ,
and shut the door after him .
*
And he said ,
I pray you ,
my brethren ,
do not act wickedly .
*
Behold now ,
I have two daughters who 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 ,
since they have once come under the shadow of my roof .
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And they said ,
Stand back .
And they said ,
This one man came in to sojourn ,
and he will needs be a judge ;
now will we deal worse with thee than with them .
And they pressed sorely upon the man Lot ,
and they came near to break the door .
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But the men put forth their hand ,
and pulled Lot to them into the house ,
and the door they locked .
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And the men that were at the entrance of the house they smote with blindness ,
both small and great ,
so that they wearied themselves to find the entrance .
*
And the men said unto Lot ,
Hast thou here any besides ?
a son
in
law ,
and thy sons ,
and thy daughters ,
and whatsoever thou hast in the city ,
bring out of this place .
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For we will destroy this place ,
because the cry against them is waxed great before the face of the Lord ;
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it .
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And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons
in
law ,
who were to marry his daughters ,
and said ,
Arise ,
get yourselves out of this place ,
for the Lord will destroy this city ;
but he seemed as one that jesteth in the eyes of his sons
in
law .
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And as the morning dawn arose ,
the angels urged Lot ,
saying ,
Arise ,
take thy wife ,
and thy two daughters that are here ,
lest thou be consumed for the iniquity of the city .
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And while he yet lingered ,
the men laid hold of his hand ,
and of the hand of his wife ,
and of the hand of his two daughters ,
because the Lord desired to spare him ;
and they brought him forth ,
and set him without the city .
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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 consumed .
*
And Lot said unto them ,
Oh ,
not so ,
my lord !
*
Behold now ,
thy servant hath found grace in thy eyes ,
and thou hast magnified thy kindness ,
which thou hast showed 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 thereunto ,
and it is little ;
oh ,
let me ,
I pray thee ,
escape thither ,
that my life may be saved .
*
And he said unto him ,
See ,
I have favored thee concerning this thing also ,
that I will not overthrow this city ,
of which thou hast spoken .
*
Haste thee ,
escape thither ;
for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither .
Therefore was the name of the city called Zoar .
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The sun rose over the earth ,
when Lot entered into Zoar .
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And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire ,
from the Lord ,
out of heaven ;
*
And he overthrew those cities ,
and all the plain ,
and all the inhabitants of the cities ,
and that which grew upon the ground .
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But his wife looked back from behind him ,
and she became a pillar of salt .
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And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord :
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and toward all the land of the plain ,
and beheld ,
and lo ,
smoke went up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace .
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And it came to pass ,
when God destroyed the cities of the plain ,
that God remembered Abraham ,
and sent Lot away out of the midst of the overthrow ,
when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt .
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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 country 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 perceived not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
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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 .
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And they made their father drink wine that night also ;
and the younger arose ,
and lay with him ,
and he perceived not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
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And both the daughters of Lot became with child by their father .
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And the first
born bore a son ,
and called his name Moab ;
the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day .
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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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