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then God said ,
Let light be !
And there was light .
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And God saw the light ,
that it was good ,
and God separated between the light and darkness .
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And God called the light ,
Day .
And He called the darkness ,
Night .
And there was evening ,
and there was morning the first day .
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And God said ,
Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters ,
and let it divide between the waters and the waters .
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And God made the expanse ,
and He separated between the waters which were under the expanse and the waters which were above the expanse .
And it was so .
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And God called the expanse ,
Heavens .
And there was evening ,
and there was morning the second day .
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And God said ,
Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place ,
and let the dry land appear .
And it was so .
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And God called the dry land ,
Earth .
And He called the collection of the waters ,
Seas .
And God saw that it was good .
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And God said ,
Let the earth sprout tender sprouts ,
the plant seeding seed ,
the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind ,
whichever seed is in it on the earth .
And it was so .
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And the earth bore tender sprouts ,
the plant seeding seed according to its kind ,
and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind ,
whichever seed is in it .
And God saw that it was good .
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And there was evening ,
and there was morning the third day .
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And God said ,
Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens ,
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 luminaries in the expanse of the heavens ,
to give light on the earth .
And it was so .
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And God made the two great luminaries :
the great luminary to rule the day ,
and the small luminary and the stars to rule the night .
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And God set them in the expanse of the heavens ,
to give light on the earth ,
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and to rule over the day and over the night ;
and to divide between the light and the darkness .
And God saw that it was good .
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And there was evening ,
and there was morning the fourth day .
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And God said ,
Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a soul of life ;
and let the birds fly over the earth ,
on the face of the expanse of the heavens .
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And God created the great sea animals ,
and all that creeps ,
having a living soul ,
which swarmed the waters ,
according to its kind ;
and every bird with wing according to 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 birds multiply in the earth .
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And there was evening ,
and there was morning the fifth day .
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And God said ,
Let the earth bring forth the soul of life according to its kind :
cattle ,
and creepers ,
and its beasts of the earth ,
according to its kind .
And it was so .
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And God made the beasts of the earth according to its kind ,
and cattle according to its kind ,
and all creepers of the ground according to its kind .
And God saw that it was good .
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And God said ,
let Us make man in Our image ,
according to Our likeness ;
and let them rule over the fish of the sea ,
and over the birds of the heavens ,
and over the cattle ,
and over all the earth ,
and over all the creepers creeping on the earth .
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And God created the man in His own image ;
in the image of God He created him .
He created them male and female .
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And God blessed them ;
and God said to them ,
Be fruitful and multiply ,
and fill the earth ,
and subdue it ,
and rule over the fish of the sea ,
and over birds of the heavens ,
and over all beasts creeping on the earth .
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And God said ,
Behold ,
I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth ,
and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed ;
it shall be food for you .
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And to every beast of the earth ,
and to all birds of the heavens ,
and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul ,
every green plant is for food .
And it was so .
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And God saw everything that He had made and behold ,
it was very good .
And there was evening ,
and there was morning the sixth day .
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And these are the generations of the sons of Noah ,
Shem ,
Ham ,
and Japheth .
And sons were born to them after the flood .
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The sons of Japheth :
Gomer ,
and Magog ,
and Madai ,
and Javan ,
and Tubal ,
and Meshech ,
and Tiras .
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And Gomer '
s sons were Ashkenaz ,
and Riphath ,
and Togarmah .
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And Javan '
s sons were Elishah ,
and Tarshish ,
Kittim ,
and Dodanim .
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The coasts of the nations were divided by these in their lands each by his tongue ,
by their families ,
in their nations .
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And Ham '
s sons were Cush ,
and Mizraim ,
and Put ,
and Canaan .
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And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah ,
and Sabtah ,
and Raamah ,
and Sabtecha .
And Raamah '
s sons were Sheba and Dedan .
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And Cush fathered Nimrod ;
he began to be a mighty one in the land .
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He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah ;
so it is said ,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah .
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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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From that land he went forth to Assyria and built Nineveh ,
and Rehoboth the city ,
and Calah ,
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and Resen between Nineveh and Calah ,
which is a great city .
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And Mizraim fathered Ludim ,
and Anamim ,
and Lehabim ,
and Naphtuhim ,
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and Pathrusim ,
and Casluhim ,
who from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim .
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And Canaan fathered his firstborn Sidon ,
and Heth ,
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and the Jebusite ,
and the Amorite ,
and the Girgashite ,
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and the Hivite ,
and the Arkite ,
and the Sinite ,
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and the Arvadite and the Zemarite ,
and the Hamathite .
And afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed .
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon ,
as you come to Gerar ,
as far as Gaza ,
as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and Admah ,
and Zeboim ,
even to Lasha .
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These were the sons of Ham ,
according to their families ,
according to their tongues ,
in their countries ,
in their nations .
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And to Shem was born ,
even to him ,
the father of all the sons of Eber ,
the brother of Japheth the elder .
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The sons of Shem were Elam ,
and Asshur ,
and Arpachshad ,
and Lud ,
and Aram .
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And Aram '
s sons were Uz ,
and Hul ,
and Gether ,
and Mash .
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And Arpachshad fathered Salah ;
and Salah fathered Eber .
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And two sons were born to Eber ;
the name of the one was Peleg ,
for in his days the earth was divided ;
and his brother '
s name was Joktan .
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And Joktan fathered Almodad ,
and Sheleph ,
and Hazarmaveth ,
and Jerah ,
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and Hadoram ,
and Uzal ,
and Diklah ,
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and Obal ,
and Abimael ,
and Sheba ,
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and Ophir ,
and Havilah ,
and Jobab .
These all were the sons of Joktan .
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And their dwelling was from Mesha ,
as you go to Sephar ,
an eastern mountain .
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These were the sons of Shem ,
according to their families ,
according to their tongues ,
in their lands ,
according to their nations .
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These were the families of the sons of Noah ,
by their generations ,
in their nations .
And from these the nations were divided in the earth after the flood .
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And the whole earth was of one lip and of one speech
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And it happened ,
as they pulled up stakes from the east ,
they found a level valley in the land of Shinar .
And they lived there .
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And each one said to his neighbor ,
Come ,
let us make brick ,
and burning burn them .
And they had brick for stone ,
and they had asphalt for mortar .
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And they said ,
Come ,
let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens ,
and make a name for ourselves ,
that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth .
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And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built .
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And Jehovah said ,
Behold ,
the people is one ,
and the lip one to all of them ,
and this they are beginning to do ,
and now all which they have purposed to do will not be restrained from them .
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Come ,
let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand one another '
s speech .
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And Jehovah scattered them from there ,
over the face of all the earth .
And they stopped building the city .
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On account of this its name is called Babel ,
because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth there .
And Jehovah scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth .
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These are the generations of Shem :
Shem was a son of a hundred years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood .
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And after he fathered Arpachshad ,
Shem lived five hundred years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Arpachshad lived thirty five years and fathered Salah .
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And after he fathered Salah ,
Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Salah lived thirty years and fathered Eber .
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And after he fathered Eber ,
Salah lived four hundred and three years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Eber lived thirty four years and fathered Peleg .
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And after he fathered Peleg ,
Eber lived four hundred and thirty years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu .
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And after he fathered Reu ,
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Reu lived thirty two years and fathered Serug .
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And after he fathered Serug ,
Reu lived two hundred and seven years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor .
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And after he fathered Nahor ,
Serug lived two hundred years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Nahor lived twenty nine years and fathered Terah .
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And after he fathered Terah ,
Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years .
And he fathered sons and daughters .
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And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
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And these are the generations of Terah :
Terah fathered Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
And Haran fathered Lot .
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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth ,
in Ur of the Chaldeans .
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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves .
The name of Abram '
s wife was Sarai .
And the name of Nahor '
s wife was Milcah ,
the daughter of Haran ,
the father of Milcah ,
and the father of Iscah .
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And Sarai was barren ;
there was no child to her .
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And Terah took his son Abram ,
and Lot ,
Haran '
s son ,
his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai ,
his son Abram '
s wife .
And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan .
And they came to Haran and lived there .
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years ;
and Terah died in Haran .
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And Jehovah had said to Abram ,
Go out from your land and from your kindred ,
and from your father '
s house ,
to the land which I will show you .
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And I will make of you a great nation .
And I will bless you and make your name great ;
and you will be a blessing .
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And I will bless those who bless you ,
and curse the one despising you .
And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed .
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And Abram went out ,
even as Jehovah had spoken to him .
And Lot went with him .
And Abram was a son of seventy five years when he went out from Haran .
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And Abram took his wife Sarai ,
and his brother '
s son ,
Lot ,
and all their substance that they had gained ,
and the persons they had gotten in Haran .
And they went out 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 as far as the place of Shechem ,
to the Oak of Moreh .
And the Canaanite was then in the land .
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And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said I will give this land to your seed .
And he built an altar there to Jehovah ,
who appeared to him .
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And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel ,
and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea ,
and Ai on the east .
And he built an altar there to Jehovah ,
and called on the name of Jehovah .
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And Abram pulled up stakes ,
going on and pulling up toward the Negeb .
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And a famine was in the land ,
so Abram went down into Egypt to stay there .
For the famine was heavy in the land .
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And it happened when he had drawn near to come to Egypt ,
he said to his wife Sarai ,
Behold ,
please ,
I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon .
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And it will be ,
when the Egyptians see you ,
then they will say ,
This is his wife ,
and they will kill me ,
and they will save you alive .
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Please say that you are my sister ,
so that it may be well with me for your sake ,
and my soul shall live because of you .
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And it happened ,
when Abram had come into Egypt ,
the Egyptians saw the woman ,
that she was very beautiful .
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And Pharaoh '
s princes saw her ,
and they praised her before Pharaoh .
And the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And he did good to Abram because of her .
And he had sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he-asses ,
and male slaves ,
and slave-girls ,
and she-asses ,
and camels .
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And Jehovah touched Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called for Abram and said ,
What is this you have done to me ?
Why did you not tell me she is your wife ?
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Why did you say ,
She is my sister ?
And so I took her for my wife .
Now ,
then ,
see your wife .
Take her and go .
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And as Pharaoh commanded his men as to him ,
even they sent away him and his wife and all that he had .
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And Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negeb ,
he and his wife and all that he had ,
and Lot being with him .
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And Abram was very rich in livestock ,
in silver and in gold .
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And he went on his journeys from the south ,
even to Bethel ,
to the place where his tent had been there at the beginning ,
between Bethel and Ai ,
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to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first .
And Abram called on the name of Jehovah there .
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And Lot ,
who went with Abram ,
also had flocks and herds and tents .
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And the land was not able to bear them ,
for dwelling together ,
for their wealth was great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram '
s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot '
s livestock .
And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land .
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And Abram said to Lot ,
Please let there be no strife between me and you ,
and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen ,
for we are men ,
brothers .
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is not all the land before you ?
Please separate from me .
If you go to the left ,
then I will go to the right .
Or if you go to the right ,
then I will go to the left .
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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan ,
that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
even like the garden of Jehovah ,
like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar .
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Then Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself .
And Lot pulled up toward the east .
And they were separated ,
each one from his brother .
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And Abram lived in the land of Canaan ,
and Lot lived in the cities of the circuit ,
and tented as far as Sodom .
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And the men of Sodom were evil and sinners before Jehovah ,
exceedingly so .
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And after Lot had separated from him ,
Jehovah said to Abram ,
Now lift up your eyes and look northward and southward and eastward and westward from the place where you are .
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For all the land which you see I will give to you ,
and to your seed forever .
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And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth ,
so that if a man can count the dust of the earth ,
then your seed also will be counted .
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Rise up !
Walk through the land ,
in its length and in its breadth ,
for I will give it to you .
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Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived among the oaks of Mamre ,
which were in Hebron ;
and he built an altar to Jehovah there .
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And it happened in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar ,
Arioch king of Ellasar ,
Chedorlaomer ,
king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of the nations ,
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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 ,
which is Zoar .
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All these were joined together to the valley of Siddim ,
which is the Salt Sea .
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They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years ,
and the thirteenth year they rebelled .
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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim ,
and the Zuzims in Ham ,
and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim ,
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and the Horites in the hills of Seir ,
as far as the oak of Paran ,
which is by the wilderness .
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And they turned back and came to Enmishpat which is Kadesh ,
and struck all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Thamar .
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And the king of Sodom went out ,
and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah ,
and the king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela ,
which is Zoar .
And they set the battle with them in the valley of Siddim ,
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with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam ,
and with Tidal the king of the nations ,
and Amraphel the king of Shinar ,
and Arioch the king of Ellasar ;
four kings with the five .
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And the valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits ,
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and fell there .
And they that remained fled to the mountain .
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And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and all their food ,
and went away .
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And they took Lot ,
the son of Abram '
s brother ,
and his goods ,
and left ;
and he was living in Sodom .
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And one who had escaped came and told Abraham the Hebrew ;
for he was living among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite ,
the brother of Eshcol and Aner .
And these had a covenant with Abram .
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And when Abram heard that his brother was captured ,
even then he led out his trained men ,
born of his household ,
three hundred and eighteen .
And they pursued as far as Daniel .
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And he divided against them by night ,
he and his slaves ,
and he struck them ,
and pursued them as far as Hobah ,
which is on the left of Damascus .
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And he brought back all the goods ,
and also brought back his brother ,
and also the women and the people .
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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him ,
after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him ,
to the valley of Shaveh ,
it being the valley of the king
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And Melchizedek ,
king of Salem ,
brought out bread and wine ;
and he was the priest of the most high God .
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And he blessed him and said ,
Blessed be Abram of the most high God ,
possessor of Heaven and earth ;
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and blessed be the most high God ,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand .
And he gave him a tithe of all .
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And the king of Sodom said to Abram ,
Give me the persons and take the goods for yourself .
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom ,
I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah ,
the most high God ,
the possessor of Heaven and earth ,
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that I will not take from all that is yours ,
from a thread to a shoe latchet ,
and that you may not say ,
I have made Abram rich .
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nothing for me ;
only what the young men have eaten ,
and the portion of the men who went with me :
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre ;
let them take their portion .
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After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision ,
saying ,
Do not fear ,
Abram ;
I am your shield ,
your reward will increase greatly .
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And Abram said ,
Lord Jehovah ,
what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus ?
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And Abram said ,
Behold !
You have given no seed to me ;
and lo ,
the son of my house is inheriting of me !
And behold !
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And behold !
The word of Jehovah came to him saying ,
This one shall not be your heir .
But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir .
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And He brought him outside and said ,
Look now at the heavens and count the stars ,
if you are able to count them .
And He said to him ,
So shall your seed be .
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And he believed in Jehovah .
And He counted it to him for righteousness .
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And He said to him ,
I am Jehovah who caused you to come out of Ur of the Chaldeans ,
to give you this land to inherit it .
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And he said ,
My Lord Jehovah ,
by what shall I know that I shall inherit it ?
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And He said to him ,
Take for Me a heifer three years old ,
and a she-goat three years old ,
and a ram three years old ,
and a turtledove ,
even a nestling .
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And he took all these for Him ,
and he divided them in the middle ;
and he laid each piece against one another ,
but he did not divide the bird .
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And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses ,
and Abram drove them away .
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And it happened ,
the sun was setting ,
and a deep sleep fell on Abram ;
ant behold ,
a terror of great darkness falling on him !
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And He said to Abram ,
You must surely know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs ;
and they shall serve them .
And they shall afflict then four hundred years ;
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and I also will judge that nation whom they shall serve ;
and afterward they shall come out with great substance .
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And you shall come to you fathers in peace .
You shall be buried in good old age .
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And in the fourth generation they shall come here again ;
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full
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And it happened ,
the sun had gone down ,
and it was dark .
Behold !
A smoking furnace and a torch of fire that passed between those pieces !
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On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram ,
saying ,
I have given this land to your seed ,
from the river of Egypt to the great river ,
the river Euphrates ,
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the Kenite ,
and the Kenizzite ,
and the Kadmonite ,
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and the Hittite ,
and the Perizzite ,
and the giants ,
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and the Amorite and the Canaanite ,
and the Girgashite ,
and the Jebusite .
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And Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
did not bear to him ;
and to her belonged a female slave ,
an Egyptian ,
and her name was Hagar .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
See ,
now ,
Jehovah has kept me from bearing ;
go in now to my slave-girl ;
perhaps I may be built up from her .
And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai .
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And Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
took her slave-girl ,
Hagar ,
the Egyptian ,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife ,
after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan .
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And he went in to Hagar and she conceived ;
and she saw that she had conceived ,
and her mistress was despised in her eyes .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
My injury be upon you ;
I gave my slave-girl into your bosom ,
and she saw that she had conceived ,
and I was despised in her eyes .
Let Jehovah judge between me and you .
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But Abram said to Sarai ,
See ,
your slave girl is in your hand .
Do to her what is good in your eyes .
And Sarai dealt harshly with her ,
and she fled from before her .
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And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness ;
by the well in the way of Shur .
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And He said ,
Hagar ,
Sarai '
s slave-girl ,
where did you come from ?
And where do you go ?
And she said ,
I am fleeing from the face of my mistress ,
Sarai .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
I will exceedingly multiply your seed ,
so that it shall not be numbered for multitude .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
Behold !
You are with child and shall bear a son ;
and you shall call his name Ishmael ,
because Jehovah has attended to your affliction .
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And he shall be a wild ass of a man ,
his hand against all ,
and the hand of everyone against him ;
and he shall live before all his brothers .
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And she called the name of Jehovah ,
the One speaking to her ,
You ,
a God of vision !
For she said ,
Even here I have looked after the One seeing me ?
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On account of this ,
the well was called ,
The Well of the Living One Seeing Me .
Behold ,
it is between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar bore a son to Abram ,
and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore ,
Ishmael .
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And Abram was eighty six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram .
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And when Abram was ninety nine years old ,
Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him ,
I am the Almighty God !
Walk before me and be perfect ;
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and I will make My covenant between Me and you ,
and will multiply you exceedingly .
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And Abram fell on his face .
And God spoke with him ,
saying ,
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As for Me ,
behold ,
My covenant is with you ,
and you shall be a father of many nations .
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And your name no longer shall be Abram ;
but your name shall be Abraham ;
for I have made you a father of many nations .
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And I will make you very fruitful ,
exceedingly .
And I will give you for nations .
And kings shall come out of you .
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And I will establish My covenant between Me and you ,
and your seed after you in their generations ,
for an everlasting covenant ,
to be a God to you and to your seed after you .
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And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojourning ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession and I will be their God .
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And God said to Abraham ,
You shall keep My covenant ,
you and your seed after you in their generations .
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This is My covenant which you shall keep ,
between Me and you and your seed after you :
Every male child among you shall be circumcised
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And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin .
And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you .
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And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you ,
every male in your generation ,
he that is born in the house ,
or bought with silver from any son of a foreigner who is not of your seed .
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Surely the child of your house and the purchase of your money must be circumcised .
And My covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant .
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And an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin ,
his soul shall be cut off from his people ;
he has broken My covenant .
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And God said to Abraham ,
You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai ,
for Sarah shall be her name ;
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and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her .
Yea ,
I have blessed her and she shall become nations ;
kings of people shall be from her .
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And Abraham fell on his face and laughed .
And he said in his heart ,
Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years ?
And shall Sarah bear ,
a daughter of ninety years ?
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And Abraham said to God ,
Oh that Ishmael might live before You !
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And God said ,
Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son ,
and you shall call his name Isaac .
And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him .
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And as to Ishmael ,
I have heard you .
Behold ,
I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly .
He shall father twelve princes ,
and I will make him a great nation .
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And I will establish My covenant with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year .
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And He finished talking with him .
And God went up from Abraham .
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And Abraham took his son Ishmael ,
and all the ones born of his house ,
and all that were bought with his silver ,
every male among the men of the house of Abraham .
And he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in that same day ,
even as God spoke to him .
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And Abraham was a son of ninety nine years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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And his son Ishmael was a son of thirteen years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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In the same day that Abraham was circumcised ,
Ishmael his son also was .
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And all the men of his house ,
born in the house or bought with silver from a son of a foreigner ,
were circumcised with him .
*
And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre .
And he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day .
*
And he lifted up his eyes and looked ;
and ,
behold ,
three men were standing by him .
And he saw ,
and he ran to meet them from the entrance of the tent .
And he bowed to the ground .
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And he said ,
My Lord ,
if now I have found favor in Your sight ,
I beg You ,
do not leave from near Your servant .
*
Please allow a little water to be taken and You wash Your feet ,
and rest under the tree .
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And I will bring a bite of bread and will sustain Your heart .
Then You may pass on ,
for this is why You have passed over to Your servant .
And they said ,
Do so ,
as you have said .
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And Abraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said ,
Hurry ,
prepare three measures of fine meal ,
knead it and make cakes .
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And Abraham ran to the herd and brought a son of the herd ,
tender and good ,
and gave it to a youth .
And he hurried to prepare it .
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And he took curds and milk and the son of the herd which he had prepared ,
and he set before them .
And he stood by them under the tree .
And they ate .
*
And they said to him ,
Where is your wife Sarah ?
And he said ,
See ,
in the tent .
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And He said ,
I will certainly return to you at the time of life ;
and ,
Behold !
A son shall be to your wife Sarah .
And Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent ,
and it was behind Him .
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And Abraham and Sarah were aged ,
going on in days .
The custom as to women had ceased to be to Sarah .
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And Sarah laughed within herself ,
saying ,
After my being old ,
shall there be pleasure to me ;
my lord also being old ?
*
And Jehovah said to Abraham ,
Why has Sarah laughed at this ,
saying ,
Indeed ,
truly shall I bear ,
even I who am old ?
*
Is anything too difficult for Jehovah ?
At the appointed time I will return to you ,
at the time of life ,
and there will be a son to Sarah .
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And Sarah denied ,
saying ,
I did not laugh ;
for she was afraid .
And He said ,
No ,
but you did laugh .
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And the men rose up from there and looked on the face of Sodom .
And Abraham was going with them ,
to send them away .
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And Jehovah said ,
Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing ?
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And Abraham shall become a great and powerful nation ,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ?
*
For I have known him ,
so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him ,
even they may keep the way of Jehovah ,
to do righteousness and justice ;
to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him .
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And Jehovah said ,
The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great ,
and their sin is exceedingly heavy .
*
I will go down and see if they have at all done according to the cry coming to Me .
And if not ,
I will know .
*
And the men faced around from there and went toward Sodom .
And Abraham was still standing before Jehovah .
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And Abraham drew near and said Is it so ?
Will You cut off the righteous with the wicked ?
*
Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city ;
is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it ?
*
Far be it from You to act in this way ,
to put to death the righteous with the wicked .
Far be it from You .
The Judge of all the earth ,
shall He not do right ?
*
And Jehovah said ,
If I find fifty righteous within the city ,
in Sodom ,
then I will spare all the place because of them .
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And Abraham answered and said ,
Behold ,
I pray ,
I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ,
and I am dust and ash .
*
Perhaps there will be lacking five from the fifty righteous ,
will You destroy all the city for the five ?
And He said ,
If I find forty five there ,
I will not destroy .
*
And he continued still to speak to Him and said ,
Perhaps forty will be found there .
And He said I will not do it because of the forty .
*
And he said ,
Please do not my Lord be angry ,
that I may speak ;
perhaps thirty will be found there .
And He said ,
I will not do it if I find thirty there .
*
And he said ,
Behold ,
I pray ,
I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ;
perhaps twenty will be found there .
And He said I will not destroy because of the twenty .
*
And he said ,
I pray ,
let not my Lord be angry that I may speak only this time ;
perhaps ten will be found there .
And He said ,
I will not destroy because of the ten .
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And when Jehovah had finished speaking to Abraham ,
then Abraham returned to his place .
*
And the two angels came into Sodom at evening .
And Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom .
And Lot saw ,
and he rose up to meet them and bowed his face to the earth .
*
And he said ,
Behold ,
now ,
my lords ,
please turn into your servant '
s house and lodge ,
and wash your feet ;
and rise early and go to your way .
And they said ,
No ,
for we will lodge in the street .
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And he much urged them ,
and they turned into him and came into his house .
And he made a feast for them .
And he baked unleavened cakes ,
and they ate .
*
Before they had laid down ,
even the men of the city ,
the men of Sodom ,
circled the house ;
from the young to the aged ,
all the people from its limits .
*
And they called to Lot and said to him ,
Where are the men who came to you tonight ?
Bring them out to us ,
that we may know them .
*
And Lot went out to them ,
to the door ,
and he closed the door behind him .
*
And he said ,
My brothers ,
please do not act evilly .
*
Behold ,
now ,
I have two daughters who have not known a man ;
please let me bring them out to you and do to them as you see fit ;
only do not do a thing to these men ,
because on account of this they came into the shade of my roof .
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And they said ,
Stand back !
And they said ,
This one came into visit ,
and must he always judge ?
Now we will do evil to you rather than to them .
And they pressed on the man ,
upon Lot violently ,
and drew near to break the door .
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But the men put out their hands and pulled Lot to them ,
into the house ,
and shut the door .
*
And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness ,
from the small to the great ;
and they struggled to find the door .
*
And the men said to Lot ,
Who still is here to you ?
Bring out of this place your sons and your sons-in-law and your daughters ,
and whoever belongs to you in the city .
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For we are about to destroy this place ,
for the cry of them is great before Jehovah ,
and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it .
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And Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law ,
those taking his daughters .
And he said ,
Rise up ,
go out from this place ,
for Jehovah is about to destroy the city .
And he seemed as one joking to his sons-in-law .
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And when the dawn rose ,
then the angels urged Lot ,
saying ,
Rise up ,
take your wife and your two daughters who are found ,
lest you be cut off in the depravity of the city .
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And he lingered .
And the men lay hold of his hand and his wife '
s hand ,
and on the hand of his two daughters ,
Jehovah having mercy on him .
And they caused him to go out ,
and they put him down outside the city .
*
And it happened as they led them outside ,
he said ,
Escape for your life !
Do not look behind you ,
and do not stay in all the plain .
Escape to the mountain ,
lest you be swept away .
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And Lot said to them ,
Oh no ,
Lord !
*
Behold ,
now ,
Your servant has found grace in Your sight ,
and You have magnified Your mercy which You have shown to me in saving my life .
And I am not able to escape to the mountain lest some evil overtake me and I die .
*
Behold ,
now ,
this city is near ,
to flee there ,
and it is a little one .
Please let me escape there !
Is it not a little thing ,
that my soul may live ?
*
And He said to him ,
See ,
I have lifted up your face also as to this thing ,
without overthrowing the city for which you have spoken .
*
Hurry ,
escape there ,
for I am not able to do anything until you have come there .
So the name of the city was called Zoar .
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The sun had risen on the earth ,
and Lot came into Zoar .
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And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah ,
from Jehovah out of the heavens .
*
And He overthrew those cities ,
and all the plain ,
and all those living in the cities ,
and the produce of the ground .
*
And his wife looked back from behind him ,
and she became a pillar of salt .
*
And Abraham started up early in the morning ,
going to the place where he had stood there before Jehovah .
*
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and toward all the land of the plain .
And he saw .
And ,
behold ,
the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace .
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And it happened when God destroyed the cities of the plain ,
God remembered Abraham ;
and He sent Lot out from the overthrow when overturning the cities in which Lot lived .
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And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mount .
And his two daughters were with him .
For he feared to live in Zoar .
And he lived in a cave ,
he and his two daughters .
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And the first born said to the younger ,
Our father is old ,
and there is no man in the land to come in to us as is the way of all the earth .
*
Come ,
let us make our father drink wine ,
and let us lie with him ,
that we may keep alive seed of our father .
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And they caused their father to drink wine that night .
And the first born went in and lay with her father .
And he did not know when she lay down nor when she rose up .
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And on the next day it happened ,
the first born said to the younger ,
Behold ,
I lay with my father last night .
Let us cause him to drink wine tonight also .
And you go in and lie with him ,
so that we may keep alive seed of our father .
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And they caused their father to drink wine that night also .
And the younger rose up and lay with him .
And he did not know when she lay down ,
nor when she rose up .
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And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father .
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And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab ;
he is the father of Moab to this day .
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And the younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi ;
he is the father of the Ammonites to this day .
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