dby - Genesis:15-17

dby@Genesis:15:1 @ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

dby@Genesis:15:2 @ And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

dby@Genesis:15:3 @ And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

dby@Genesis:15:4 @ And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.

dby@Genesis:15:5 @ And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

dby@Genesis:15:6 @ And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

dby@Genesis:15:7 @ And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

dby@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

dby@Genesis:15:9 @ And he said to 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.

dby@Genesis:15:10 @ And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.

dby@Genesis:15:11 @ And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.

dby@Genesis:15:12 @ And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

dby@Genesis:15:13 @ And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

dby@Genesis:15:14 @ But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.

dby@Genesis:15:15 @ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

dby@Genesis:15:16 @ And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

dby@Genesis:15:17 @ And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

dby@Genesis:15:18 @ On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

dby@Genesis:15:19 @ the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

dby@Genesis:15:20 @ and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

dby@Genesis:15:21 @ and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

dby@Genesis:16:1 @ And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

dby@Genesis:16:2 @ And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

dby@Genesis:16:3 @ And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

dby@Genesis:16:4 @ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

dby@Genesis:16:5 @ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!

dby@Genesis:16:6 @ And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

dby@Genesis:16:7 @ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

dby@Genesis:16:8 @ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

dby@Genesis:16:9 @ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

dby@Genesis:16:10 @ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

dby@Genesis:16:11 @ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.

dby@Genesis:16:12 @ And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

dby@Genesis:16:13 @ And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the �God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself.

dby@Genesis:16:14 @ Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

dby@Genesis:16:15 @ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

dby@Genesis:16:16 @ And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

dby@Genesis:17:1 @ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty �God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

dby@Genesis:17:2 @ And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

dby@Genesis:17:3 @ And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

dby@Genesis:17:4 @ It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

dby@Genesis:17:5 @ And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

dby@Genesis:17:6 @ And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

dby@Genesis:17:7 @ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

dby@Genesis:17:8 @ And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

dby@Genesis:17:9 @ And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

dby@Genesis:17:10 @ This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee -- that every male among you be circumcised.

dby@Genesis:17:11 @ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

dby@Genesis:17:12 @ And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

dby@Genesis:17:13 @ He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

dby@Genesis:17:14 @ And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

dby@Genesis:17:15 @ And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

dby@Genesis:17:16 @ And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

dby@Genesis:17:17 @ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

dby@Genesis:17:18 @ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

dby@Genesis:17:19 @ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed 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.

dby@Genesis:17:20 @ And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

dby@Genesis:17:21 @ But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

dby@Genesis:17:22 @ And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

dby@Genesis:17:23 @ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money -- every male among the people of Abraham's house -- and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

dby@Genesis:17:24 @ And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

dby@Genesis:17:25 @ And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

dby@Genesis:17:26 @ In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

dby@Genesis:17:27 @ and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

dby@Genesis:18:1 @ And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.