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jps@Genesis:1:1 @ IN THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

jps@Genesis:1:5 @ And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

jps@Genesis:1:6 @ And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'

jps@Genesis:1:8 @ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

jps@Genesis:1:10 @ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.

jps@Genesis:1:11 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:12 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:13 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

jps@Genesis:1:14 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:1:15 @ and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so.

jps@Genesis:1:17 @ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

jps@Genesis:1:19 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

jps@Genesis:1:20 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:1:21 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:22 @ And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'

jps@Genesis:1:23 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

jps@Genesis:1:24 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:25 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:26 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:1:27 @ And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

jps@Genesis:1:28 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:1:29 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:1:30 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:1:31 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:2:1 @ And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

jps@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

jps@Genesis:2:3 @ And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.

jps@Genesis:2:4 @ These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

jps@Genesis:2:5 @ No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;

jps@Genesis:2:7 @ Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

jps@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.

jps@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

jps@Genesis:2:15 @ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

jps@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;

jps@Genesis:2:17 @ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'

jps@Genesis:2:19 @ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof.

jps@Genesis:2:21 @ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.

jps@Genesis:3:3 @ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'

jps@Genesis:3:5 @ for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.'

jps@Genesis:3:8 @ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

jps@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'

jps@Genesis:3:16 @ Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'

jps@Genesis:3:17 @ And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

jps@Genesis:3:18 @ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

jps@Genesis:3:19 @ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'

jps@Genesis:3:20 @ And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

jps@Genesis:3:21 @ And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

jps@Genesis:3:24 @ So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.

jps@Genesis:4:1 @ And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'

jps@Genesis:4:2 @ And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

jps@Genesis:4:3 @ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

jps@Genesis:4:4 @ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering;

jps@Genesis:4:5 @ but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

jps@Genesis:4:6 @ And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

jps@Genesis:4:7 @ If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.'

jps@Genesis:4:8 @ And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

jps@Genesis:4:9 @ And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'

jps@Genesis:4:12 @ When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'

jps@Genesis:4:13 @ And Cain said unto the LORD: 'My punishment is greater than I can bear.

jps@Genesis:4:14 @ Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.'

jps@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him: 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.' And the LORD set a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

jps@Genesis:4:16 @ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

jps@Genesis:4:17 @ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

jps@Genesis:4:20 @ And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.

jps@Genesis:4:22 @ And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

jps@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me;

jps@Genesis:4:24 @ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

jps@Genesis:4:25 @ And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'

jps@Genesis:5:1 @ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;

jps@Genesis:5:2 @ male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

jps@Genesis:5:3 @ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.

jps@Genesis:5:5 @ And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:8 @ And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:9 @ And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

jps@Genesis:5:11 @ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:14 @ And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:17 @ And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:20 @ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:27 @ And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:5:29 @ And he called his name Noah, saying: 'This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh from the ground which the LORD hath cursed.'

jps@Genesis:5:30 @ And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:6:3 @ And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'

jps@Genesis:6:4 @ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

jps@Genesis:6:5 @ And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

jps@Genesis:6:7 @ And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.'

jps@Genesis:6:8 @ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

jps@Genesis:6:9 @ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.

jps@Genesis:6:14 @ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

jps@Genesis:6:16 @ A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

jps@Genesis:6:17 @ And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish.

jps@Genesis:6:18 @ But I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

jps@Genesis:6:19 @ And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

jps@Genesis:6:20 @ Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

jps@Genesis:6:22 @ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

jps@Genesis:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.

jps@Genesis:7:4 @ For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.'

jps@Genesis:7:5 @ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

jps@Genesis:7:7 @ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

jps@Genesis:7:8 @ Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the ground,

jps@Genesis:7:9 @ there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

jps@Genesis:7:11 @ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

jps@Genesis:7:12 @ And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

jps@Genesis:7:13 @ In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

jps@Genesis:7:14 @ they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.

jps@Genesis:7:15 @ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

jps@Genesis:7:16 @ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

jps@Genesis:7:17 @ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

jps@Genesis:7:18 @ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

jps@Genesis:7:19 @ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

jps@Genesis:7:20 @ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

jps@Genesis:7:21 @ And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man;

jps@Genesis:7:22 @ all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.

jps@Genesis:7:23 @ And He blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

jps@Genesis:8:1 @ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

jps@Genesis:8:2 @ the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

jps@Genesis:8:3 @ And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

jps@Genesis:8:4 @ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

jps@Genesis:8:5 @ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

jps@Genesis:8:6 @ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

jps@Genesis:8:9 @ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

jps@Genesis:8:10 @ And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

jps@Genesis:8:11 @ And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

jps@Genesis:8:12 @ And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

jps@Genesis:8:13 @ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried.

jps@Genesis:8:14 @ And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

jps@Genesis:8:15 @ And God spoke unto Noah, saying:

jps@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'

jps@Genesis:8:19 @ every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.

jps@Genesis:8:20 @ And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

jps@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

jps@Genesis:8:22 @ While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

jps@Genesis:9:2 @ And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

jps@Genesis:9:3 @ Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

jps@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

jps@Genesis:9:7 @ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'

jps@Genesis:9:8 @ And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:

jps@Genesis:9:10 @ and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

jps@Genesis:9:12 @ And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

jps@Genesis:9:13 @ I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

jps@Genesis:9:14 @ And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,

jps@Genesis:9:15 @ that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

jps@Genesis:9:16 @ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'

jps@Genesis:9:20 @ And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.

jps@Genesis:9:21 @ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

jps@Genesis:9:24 @ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

jps@Genesis:9:27 @ God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

jps@Genesis:9:29 @ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

jps@Genesis:10:5 @ Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

jps@Genesis:10:8 @ And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

jps@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

jps@Genesis:10:11 @ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

jps@Genesis:10:12 @ and Resen between Nineveh and Calah--the same is the great city.

jps@Genesis:10:14 @ and Pathrusim, and Casluhim--whence went forth the Philistines--and Caphtorim.

jps@Genesis:10:17 @ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

jps@Genesis:10:20 @ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

jps@Genesis:10:25 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:10:30 @ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

jps@Genesis:10:31 @ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

jps@Genesis:10:32 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

jps@Genesis:11:4 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:11:6 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:11:19 @ And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:24 @ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

jps@Genesis:11:25 @ And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

jps@Genesis:11:28 @ And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

jps@Genesis:11:31 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:11:32 @ And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

jps@Genesis:12:1 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:12:2 @ And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

jps@Genesis:12:3 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:12:5 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:12:6 @ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the terebinth of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

jps@Genesis:12:8 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:12:9 @ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

jps@Genesis:12:10 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:12:11 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:12:14 @ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

jps@Genesis:12:15 @ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

jps@Genesis:12:20 @ And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him; and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

jps@Genesis:13:1 @ And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

jps@Genesis:13:2 @ And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

jps@Genesis:13:3 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:13:7 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:13:10 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:13:11 @ So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other.

jps@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

jps@Genesis:13:13 @ Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly.

jps@Genesis:13:14 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:13:17 @ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.'

jps@Genesis:13:18 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:1 @ 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,

jps@Genesis:14:2 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:4 @ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

jps@Genesis:14:5 @ 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,

jps@Genesis:14:6 @ and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

jps@Genesis:14:7 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:8 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:14:9 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:10 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:12 @ And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

jps@Genesis:14:13 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:14 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:15 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:17 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:14:18 @ And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High.

jps@Genesis:14:20 @ and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.' And he gave him a tenth of all.

jps@Genesis:14:21 @ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.'

jps@Genesis:14:22 @ 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,

jps@Genesis:14:23 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:15:1 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:15:2 @ 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?'

jps@Genesis:15:3 @ And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.'

jps@Genesis:15:4 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:15:6 @ And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness.

jps@Genesis:15:7 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'

jps@Genesis:15:10 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:15:12 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:15:13 @ 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;

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

jps@Genesis:15:16 @ And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'

jps@Genesis:15:17 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:15:18 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:16:2 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:16:3 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:16:4 @ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

jps@Genesis:16:5 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:16:6 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:16:7 @ And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

jps@Genesis:16:12 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:16:13 @ 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?'

jps@Genesis:17:1 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:2 @ And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.'

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

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

jps@Genesis:17:7 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:8 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:17:11 @ And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you.

jps@Genesis:17:12 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:13 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:14 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:17:16 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:17:17 @ 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?'

jps@Genesis:17:19 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:20 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:17:21 @ But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.'

jps@Genesis:17:22 @ And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

jps@Genesis:17:23 @ 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.

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

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

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

jps@Genesis:17:27 @ And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

jps@Genesis:18:1 @ And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

jps@Genesis:18:2 @ 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,

jps@Genesis:18:3 @ and said: 'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

jps@Genesis:18:4 @ Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.

jps@Genesis:18:6 @ And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'

jps@Genesis:18:9 @ And they said unto him: 'Where is Sarah thy wife?' And he said: 'Behold, in the tent.'

jps@Genesis:18:10 @ 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.--

jps@Genesis:18:11 @ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.--

jps@Genesis:18:12 @ And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'

jps@Genesis:18:13 @ And the LORD said unto Abraham: 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying: Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

jps@Genesis:18:14 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:15 @ Then Sarah denied, saying: 'I laughed not'; for she was afraid. And He said: 'Nay; but thou didst laugh.'

jps@Genesis:18:16 @ And the men rose up from thence, and looked out toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

jps@Genesis:18:17 @ And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing;

jps@Genesis:18:18 @ seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

jps@Genesis:18:19 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:20 @ And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.

jps@Genesis:18:21 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:23 @ And Abraham drew near, and said: 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

jps@Genesis:18:24 @ 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?

jps@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'

jps@Genesis:18:28 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:29 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:30 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:18:33 @ And the LORD went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place.

jps@Genesis:19:1 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:19:2 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:3 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:5 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:8 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:9 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:10 @ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut.

jps@Genesis:19:11 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:12 @ 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;

jps@Genesis:19:14 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:15 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:16 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:17 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:19 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:21 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:22 @ Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.'--Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.--

jps@Genesis:19:24 @ Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

jps@Genesis:19:25 @ and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

jps@Genesis:19:26 @ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

jps@Genesis:19:27 @ And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

jps@Genesis:19:28 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:29 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:30 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:31 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:32 @ Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'

jps@Genesis:19:33 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:19:34 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:19:35 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:20:1 @ And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

jps@Genesis:20:2 @ And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: 'She is my sister.' And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

jps@Genesis:20:3 @ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.'

jps@Genesis:20:5 @ Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother. In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.'

jps@Genesis:20:6 @ And God said unto him in the dream: 'Yea, I know that in the simplicity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

jps@Genesis:20:7 @ Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.'

jps@Genesis:20:8 @ And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears; and the men were sore afraid.

jps@Genesis:20:9 @ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him: 'What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.'

jps@Genesis:20:10 @ And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?'

jps@Genesis:20:11 @ And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

jps@Genesis:20:12 @ And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.

jps@Genesis:20:13 @ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.'

jps@Genesis:20:16 @ And unto Sarah he said: 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.'

jps@Genesis:21:2 @ And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

jps@Genesis:21:7 @ And she said: 'Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.'

jps@Genesis:21:9 @ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

jps@Genesis:21:11 @ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

jps@Genesis:21:12 @ And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.

jps@Genesis:21:14 @ And Abraham arose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

jps@Genesis:21:15 @ And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

jps@Genesis:21:16 @ And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow-shot; for she said: 'Let me not look upon the death of the child.' And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

jps@Genesis:21:19 @ And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

jps@Genesis:21:20 @ And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

jps@Genesis:21:21 @ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

jps@Genesis:21:22 @ And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: 'God is with thee in all that thou doest.

jps@Genesis:21:23 @ Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son; but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.'

jps@Genesis:21:26 @ And Abimelech said: 'I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.'

jps@Genesis:21:32 @ So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

jps@Genesis:21:33 @ And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

jps@Genesis:21:34 @ And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

jps@Genesis:22:1 @ And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him: 'Abraham'; and he said: 'Here am I.'

jps@Genesis:22:2 @ And He said: 'Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.'

jps@Genesis:22:3 @ And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he cleaved the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

jps@Genesis:22:6 @ And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.

jps@Genesis:22:7 @ And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?'

jps@Genesis:22:8 @ And Abraham said: 'God will provide Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son.' So they went both of them together.

jps@Genesis:22:9 @ And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

jps@Genesis:22:12 @ And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'

jps@Genesis:22:13 @ And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

jps@Genesis:22:14 @ And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-jireh; as it is said to this day: 'In the mount where the LORD is seen.'

jps@Genesis:22:16 @ and said: 'By Myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

jps@Genesis:22:17 @ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

jps@Genesis:22:18 @ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

jps@Genesis:22:20 @ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying: 'Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:

jps@Genesis:22:24 @ And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

jps@Genesis:23:2 @ And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

jps@Genesis:23:3 @ And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying:

jps@Genesis:23:4 @ 'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'

jps@Genesis:23:5 @ And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:

jps@Genesis:23:6 @ 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'

jps@Genesis:23:8 @ And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

jps@Genesis:23:9 @ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.'

jps@Genesis:23:10 @ Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying:

jps@Genesis:23:11 @ 'Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee; bury thy dead.'

jps@Genesis:23:13 @ And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.'

jps@Genesis:23:14 @ And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him:

jps@Genesis:23:16 @ And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

jps@Genesis:23:17 @ So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure

jps@Genesis:23:18 @ unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

jps@Genesis:23:19 @ And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan.

jps@Genesis:23:20 @ And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.

jps@Genesis:24:1 @ And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

jps@Genesis:24:4 @ But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'

jps@Genesis:24:5 @ And the servant said unto him: 'Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land; must I needs bring thy son back unto the land from whence thou camest?'

jps@Genesis:24:6 @ And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.

jps@Genesis:24:7 @ The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying: Unto thy seed will I give this land; He will send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

jps@Genesis:24:8 @ And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.'

jps@Genesis:24:9 @ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

jps@Genesis:24:10 @ And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; having all goodly things of his master's in his hand; and he arose, and went to Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor.

jps@Genesis:24:11 @ And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

jps@Genesis:24:12 @ And he said: 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray Thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.

jps@Genesis:24:13 @ Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.

jps@Genesis:24:14 @ So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness unto my master.'

jps@Genesis:24:15 @ And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

jps@Genesis:24:16 @ And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her; and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

jps@Genesis:24:17 @ And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.'

jps@Genesis:24:18 @ And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

jps@Genesis:24:19 @ And when she had done giving him drink, she said: 'I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.'

jps@Genesis:24:20 @ And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

jps@Genesis:24:21 @ And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

jps@Genesis:24:22 @ And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

jps@Genesis:24:23 @ and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?'

jps@Genesis:24:25 @ She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.'

jps@Genesis:24:27 @ And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.'

jps@Genesis:24:28 @ And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.

jps@Genesis:24:29 @ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.

jps@Genesis:24:30 @ And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying: 'Thus spoke the man unto me,' that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain.

jps@Genesis:24:31 @ And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'

jps@Genesis:24:32 @ And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him.

jps@Genesis:24:33 @ And there was set food before him to eat; but he said: 'I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.' And he said: 'Speak on.'

jps@Genesis:24:37 @ And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.

jps@Genesis:24:38 @ But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

jps@Genesis:24:40 @ And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house;

jps@Genesis:24:41 @ then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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