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And God said ,
Let there be light :
and there was light .
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And God saw the light ,
that it was good :
and God divided the light from the darkness .
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And God called the light Day ,
and the darkness he called Night :
and the evening and the morning were the first day .
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And God said ,
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters ,
and let it divide the waters from the waters .
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And God made the firmament ;
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament :
and it was so .
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And God called the firmament Heaven :
and the evening and the morning were the second day .
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And God said ,
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place ,
and let the dry land appear :
and it was so .
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And God called the dry land Earth ,
and the collection of waters he called Seas :
and God saw that it was good .
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And God said ,
Let the earth bring forth grass ,
the herb yielding seed ,
and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind ,
whose seed is in itself ,
upon the earth :
and it was so .
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And the earth brought forth grass ,
and herb yielding seed after its kind ,
and the tree yielding fruit ,
whose seed was in itself ,
after its kind :
and God saw that it was good .
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And the evening and the morning were the third day .
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And God said ,
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven ,
to divide the day from the night :
and let them be for signs ,
and for seasons ,
and for days ,
and years .
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven ,
to give light upon the earth :
and it was so .
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And God made two great lights ;
the greater light to rule the day ,
and the lesser light to rule the night :
he made the stars also .
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And God set them in the firmament of the heaven ,
to give light upon the earth .
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And to rule over the day ,
and over the night ,
and to divide the light from the darkness :
and God saw that it was good .
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And the evening and the morning were the fourth day .
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And God said ,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life ,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven .
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And God created great whales ,
and every living creature that moveth ,
which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind ,
and every winged fowl after his kind :
and God saw that it was good .
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And God blessed them ,
saying ,
Be fruitful ,
and multiply ,
and fill the waters in the seas ,
and let fowl multiply in the earth .
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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day .
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And God said ,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind ,
cattle ,
and the creeping animal ,
and the beast of the earth after his kind :
and it was so .
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind ,
and cattle after their kind ,
and every animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind :
and God saw that it was good .
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And God said ,
Let us make man in our image ,
after our likeness :
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea ,
and over the fowl of the air ,
and over the cattle ,
and over all the earth ,
and over every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth .
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So God created man in his own image ,
in the image of God created he him ;
male and female created he them .
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And God blessed them ,
and God said to 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 animal that moveth upon the earth .
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And God said ,
Behold ,
I have given you every herb bearing seed ,
which is upon the face of all the earth ,
and every tree ,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ;
to you it shall be for food .
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And to every beast of the earth ,
and to every fowl of the air ,
and to every animal that creepeth upon the earth ,
in which is life ,
I have given every green herb for food :
and it was so .
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And God saw every thing that he had made ,
and behold ,
it was very good .
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day .
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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah ;
Shem ,
Ham ,
and Japheth :
and to them were sons born after the flood .
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The sons of Japheth ;
Gomer ,
and Magog ,
and Madai ,
and Javan ,
and Tubal ,
and Meshech ,
and Tiras .
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And the sons of Gomer ;
Ashkenaz ,
and Riphath ,
and Togarmah .
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And the sons of Javan ;
Elishah ,
and Tarshish ,
Kittim ,
and Dodanim .
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By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands ;
every one after his tongue ,
after their families ,
in their nations .
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And the sons of Ham ;
Cush ,
and Mizraim ,
and Phut ,
and Canaan .
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And the sons of Cush ;
Seba ,
and Havilah ,
and Sabtah ,
and Raamah ,
and Sabtecha ;
and the sons of Raamah ,
Sheba ,
and Dedan .
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And Cush begat Nimrod :
he began to be a mighty one in the earth .
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD :
wherefore it is said ,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD .
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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel ,
and Erech ,
and Accad ,
and Calneh ,
in the land of Shinar .
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Out of that land went forth Ashur ,
and built Nineveh ,
and the city Rehoboth ,
and Calah ,
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And Resen between Nineveh and Calah :
the same is a great city .
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And Mizraim begat Ludim ,
and Anamim ,
and Lehabim ,
and Naphtuhim .
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And Pathrusim ,
and Casluhim , (
out of whom came Philistim ,)
and Caphtorim .
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And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born ,
and Heth ,
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And the Jebusite ,
and the Emorite ,
and the Girgasite ,
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And the Hivite ,
and the Arkite ,
and the Sinite ,
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And the Arvadite ,
and the Zemarite ,
and the Hamathite :
and afterward were the families of the Canaanites dispersed .
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon ,
as thou comest to Gerar ,
to Gaza ;
as thou goest to Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and Admah ,
and Zeboim ,
even to Lashah .
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These are the sons of Ham ,
after their families ,
after their tongues ,
in their countries ,
and in their nations .
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To Shem also ,
the father of all the children of Eber ,
the brother of Japheth the elder ,
even to him were children born .
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The children of Shem ;
Elam ,
and Ashur ,
and Arphaxad ,
and Lud ,
and Aram .
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And the children of Aram ;
Uz ,
and Hul ,
and Gether ,
and Mash .
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And Arphaxad begat Salah ;
and Salah begat Eber .
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And to Eber were born two sons :
the name of one was Peleg ,
for in his days was the earth divided ;
and his brother '
s name was Joktan .
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And Joktan begat Almodad ,
and Sheleph ,
and Hazarmaveth ,
and Jerah ,
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And Hadoram ,
and Uzal ,
and Diklah .
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And Obal ,
and Abimael ,
and Sheba ,
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And Ophir ,
and Havilah ,
and Jobab :
all these were the sons of Joktan .
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And their dwelling was from Mesha ,
as thou goest to Sephar ,
a mount of the east .
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These are the sons of Shem ,
after their families ,
after their tongues ,
in their lands ,
after their nations .
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These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations ,
in their nations :
and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood .
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And the whole earth was of one language ,
and of one speech .
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And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east ,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ,
and they dwelt there .
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And they said one to another ,
come ,
let us make brick ,
and burn them thoroughly .
And they had brick for stone ,
and slime had they for mortar .
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And they said ,
come ,
let us build us a city ,
and a tower ,
whose top may reach to heaven ;
and let us make us a name ,
lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth .
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower ,
which the children of men were building .
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And the LORD said ,
Behold ,
the people is one ,
and they have all one language ;
and this they begin to do :
and now nothing will be restrained from them ,
which they have imagined to do .
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Come ,
let us go down ,
and there confound their language ,
that they may not understand one another '
s speech .
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth :
and they left off to build the city .
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel ,
because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth :
and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .
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These are the generations of Shem :
Shem was a hundred years old ,
and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood :
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And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years ,
and begat Salah .
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And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Salah lived thirty years ,
and begat Eber :
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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Eber lived four and thirty years ,
and begat Peleg :
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And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Peleg lived thirty years ,
and begat Reu :
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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Reu lived two and thirty years ,
and begat Serug .
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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Serug lived thirty years ,
and begat Nahor :
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And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years ,
and begat Terah .
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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years ,
and begat sons and daughters .
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And Terah lived seventy years ,
and begat Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
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Now these are the generations of Terah :
Terah begat Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran :
and Haran begat Lot .
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And Haran died before his father Terah ,
in the land of his nativity ,
in Ur of the Chaldees .
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And Abram and Nahor took them wives :
the name of Abram '
s wife was Sarai ;
and the name of Nahor '
s wife Milcah ,
the daughter of Haran ,
the father of Milcah ,
and the father of Iscah .
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But Sarai was barren ;
she had no child .
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And Terah took Abram his son ,
and Lot the son of Haran his son '
s son ,
and Sarai his daughter-in-law ,
his son Abram '
s wife ;
and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees ,
to go into the land of Canaan ;
and they came to Haran ,
and dwelt there .
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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years :
and Terah died in Haran .
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Now the LORD had said to Abram ,
Depart from thy country ,
and from thy kindred ,
and from thy father '
s house ,
to a land that I will show thee :
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And I will make of thee a great nation ,
and I will bless thee ,
and make thy name great ;
and thou shalt be a blessing :
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And I will bless them that bless thee ,
and curse him that curseth thee :
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed .
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So Abram departed ,
as the LORD had spoken to him ,
and Lot went with him :
and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed from Haran .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brother '
s son ,
and all their substance that they had gathered ,
and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ;
and they went to go forth into the land of Canaan ;
and into the land of Canaan they came .
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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem ,
to the plain of Moreh .
And the Canaanite was then in the land .
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And the LORD appeared to Abram ,
and said ,
To thy seed will I give this land :
and there he erected an altar to the LORD ,
who appeared to him .
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And he removed from thence to a mountain on the east of Beth-el ,
and pitched his tent ,
having Beth-el on the west ,
and Hai on the east :
and there he erected an altar to the LORD ,
and called upon the name of the LORD .
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And Abram journeyed ,
going on still towards the south .
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And there was a famine in the land :
and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there ;
for the famine was grievous in the land .
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And it came to pass ,
when he had come near to enter into Egypt ,
that he said to Sarai his wife ,
Behold now ,
I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon :
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Therefore it will come to pass ,
when the Egyptians shall see thee ,
that they will say ,
This is his wife :
and they will kill me ,
but they will save thee alive .
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Say ,
I pray thee ,
thou art my sister :
that it may be well with me for thy sake ;
and my soul shall live because of thee .
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And it came to pass ,
that when Abram had come into Egypt ,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .
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The princes also of Pharaoh saw her ,
and commended her before Pharaoh :
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And he treated Abram well for her sake :
and he had sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he-asses ,
and men-servants ,
and maid-servants ,
and she-asses ,
and camels .
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And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues ,
because of Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called Abram ,
and said ,
What is this that thou hast done to me ?
why didst thou not tell me that she is thy wife ?
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Why saidst thou ,
She is my sister ?
so I might have taken her to me for a wife :
now therefore behold thy wife ,
take her ,
and go thy way .
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And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him :
and they sent him away ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had .
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And Abram returned from Egypt ,
he ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
into the south .
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And Abram was very rich in cattle ,
in silver ,
and in gold .
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And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el ,
to the place where his tent had been at the beginning ,
between Beth-el and Hai ;
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To the place of the altar ,
which he had made there at the first :
and there Abram called on the name of the LORD .
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And Lot also ,
who went with Abram ,
had flocks ,
and herds ,
and tents .
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And the land was not able to bear them ,
that they might dwell together :
for their substance was great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram '
s cattle and the herdmen of Lot '
s cattle :
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land .
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And Abram said to Lot ,
Let there be no strife ,
I pray thee ,
between me and thee ,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ;
for we are brethren .
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Is not the whole land before thee ?
Separate thyself ,
I pray thee ,
from me :
if thou wilt take the left hand ,
then I will go to the right ;
or if thou wilt depart to the right hand ,
then I will go to the left .
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And Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and beheld all the plain of Jordan ,
that it was well watered every where ,
before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
even as the garden of the LORD ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as thou comest to Zoar .
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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ;
and Lot journeyed east :
and they separated themselves the one from the other .
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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan ,
and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain ,
and pitched his tent towards Sodom .
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But the men of Sodom were wicked ,
and sinners before the LORD ,
exceedingly .
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And the LORD said to Abram ,
after Lot was separated from him ,
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and look from the place where thou art ,
northward ,
and southward ,
and eastward ,
and westward :
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For all the land which thou seest ,
to thee will I give it ,
and to thy seed for ever .
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth :
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth ,
then shall thy seed also be numbered .
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Arise ,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ;
for I will give it to thee .
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Then Abram removed his tent ,
and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre ,
which is in Hebron ,
and built there an altar to the LORD .
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel ,
king of Shinar ,
Arioch king of Ellasar ,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of nations ;
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That these made war with Bera king of Sodom ,
and with Birsha king of Gomorrah ,
Shinab king of Admah ,
and Shemeber king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela ,
which is Zoar .
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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim ,
which is the salt sea .
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Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer ,
and in the thirteenth year they rebelled .
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And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer ,
and the kings that were with him ,
and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim ,
and the Zuzims in Ham ,
and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim ,
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And the Horites in their mount Seir ,
to El-paran ,
which is by the wilderness .
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And they returned ,
and came to En-mishpat ,
which is Kadesh ,
and smote all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Amorites ,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar .
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And there went out the king of Sodom ,
and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah ,
and the king of Zeboiim ,
and the king of Bela , (
the same is Zoar ;)
and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim ;
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With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam ,
and with Tidal king of nations ,
and Amraphel king of Shinar ,
and Arioch king of Ellasar ;
four kings with five .
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And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits ;
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and fell 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 provisions ,
and went their way .
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And they took Lot ,
Abram '
s brother '
s son ,
who dwelt in Sodom ,
and his goods ,
and departed .
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And there came one that had escaped ,
and told Abram the Hebrew ;
for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite ,
brother of Eshcol ,
and brother of Aner :
and these were confederate with Abram .
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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive ,
he armed his trained servants ,
born in his own house ,
three hundred and eighteen ,
and pursued them to Dan .
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And he divided himself against them ,
he and his servants by night ,
and smote them ,
and pursued them to Hobah ,
which is on the left hand of Damascus .
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And he brought back all the goods ,
and also brought again his brother Lot ,
and his goods ,
and the women also ,
and the people .
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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer ,
and of the kings that were with him ,
at the valley of Shaveh ,
which is the king '
s dale .
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And Melchisedek ,
king of Salem ,
brought forth 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 hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand .
And he gave him tithes of all .
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And the king of Sodom said to Abram ,
Give me the persons ,
and take the goods to thyself .
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom ,
I have lifted my hand to the LORD ,
the most high God ,
the possessor of heaven and earth ,
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That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet ,
and that I will not take any thing that is thine ,
lest thou shouldest say ,
I have made Abram rich :
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Save only that which the young men have eaten ,
and the portion of the men who went with me ,
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre ;
let them take their portion .
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After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision ,
saying ,
Fear not ,
Abram :
I am thy shield ,
and thy exceeding great reward .
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And Abram said ,
Lord GOD ,
what wilt thou give me ,
seeing I go childless ,
and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus ?
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And Abram said ,
Behold ,
to me thou hast given no seed :
and lo ,
one born in my house is my heir .
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And behold ,
the word of the LORD came to him ,
saying ,
This shall not be thy heir ;
but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir .
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And he brought him forth abroad ,
and said ,
Look now towards heaven ,
and tell the stars ,
if thou art able to number them :
and he said to him ,
So shall thy seed be .
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And he believed in the LORD ;
and he counted it to him for righteousness .
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And he said to him ,
I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees ,
to give thee this land to inherit it .
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And he said ,
Lord GOD ,
by what shall I know that I shall inherit it ?
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And he said to him ,
Take me a heifer of three years old ,
and a she-goat of three years old ,
and a ram of three years old ,
and a turtle-dove ,
and a young pigeon .
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And he took to him all these ,
and divided them in the midst ,
and laid each piece one against another :
but the birds he did not divide .
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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases ,
Abram drove them away .
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And when the sun was going down ,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram ;
and lo ,
a horror of great darkness fell upon him .
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And he said to Abram ,
Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs ,
and shall serve them ;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years ;
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And also that nation which they shall serve ,
will I judge :
and afterward shall they come out with great substance .
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace ;
thou shalt be buried in a good old age .
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But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again :
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full .
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And it came to pass ,
that when the sun had gone down ,
and it was dark ,
behold a smoking furnace ,
and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces .
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In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram ,
saying ,
To thy seed have I given this land ,
from the river of Egypt to the great river ,
the river Euphrates :
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The Kenites ,
and the Kenizzites ,
and the Kadmonites ,
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And the Hittites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Rephaims ,
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And the Amorites ,
and the Canaanites ,
and the Girgashites ,
and the Jebusites .
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Now Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
bore him no children :
and she had a handmaid ,
an Egyptian ,
whose name was Hagar .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
Behold ,
now ,
the LORD hath restrained me from bearing :
I pray thee go in to my maid ;
it may be that I may obtain children by her .
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai .
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And Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
took Hagar her maid ,
the Egyptian ,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan ,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife .
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And he went in to Hagar ,
and she conceived :
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
her mistress was despised in her eyes .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
my wrong be upon thee :
I have given my maid into thy bosom ;
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
I was despised in her eyes :
the LORD judge between me and thee .
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But Abram said to Sarai ,
Behold ,
thy maid is in thy hand ;
do to her as it pleaseth thee .
And when Sarai dealt hardly with her ,
she fled from her face .
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And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness ,
by the fountain in the way to Shur .
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And he said ,
Hagar ,
Sarai '
s maid ,
whence camest thou ?
and whither wilt thou go ?
And she said ,
I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai .
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And the angel of the LORD said to her ,
Return to thy mistress ,
and submit thyself under her hands .
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And the angel of the LORD said to her ,
I will multiply thy seed exceedingly ,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude .
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And the angel of the LORD said to her ,
Behold ,
thou art with child ,
and shalt bear a son ,
and shalt call his name Ishmael ;
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction .
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And he will be a wild man ;
his hand will be against every man ,
and every man '
s hand against him ;
and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren .
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And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her ,
Thou God seest me :
for she said ,
Have I also here looked after him that seeth me ?
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Wherefore the well was called Beer-la-hai-roi ;
behold ,
it is between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar bore Abram a son :
and Abram called his son '
s name ,
which 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 and nine years old ,
the LORD appeared to Abram ,
and said to him ,
I am the Almighty God ;
walk before me ,
and be thou perfect .
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And I will make my covenant between me and thee ,
and will multiply thee exceedingly .
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And Abram fell on his face :
and God talked with him ,
saying ,
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As for me ,
behold ,
my covenant is with thee ,
and thou shalt be a father of many nations .
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Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram ,
but thy name shall be Abraham ;
for a father of many nations have I made thee .
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And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful ,
and I will make nations of thee ;
and kings shall proceed from thee .
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee ,
and thy seed after thee ,
in their generations ,
for an everlasting covenant ;
to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee .
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And I will give to thee ,
and to thy seed after thee ,
the land in which thou art a stranger ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession ;
and I will be their God .
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And God said to Abraham ,
Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore ,
thou ,
and thy seed after thee ,
in their generations .
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This is my covenant ,
which ye shall keep between me and you ,
and thy seed after thee ;
Every male-child among you shall be circumcised .
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ;
and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you .
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And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you ,
every male-child in your generations ,
he that is born in the house ,
or bought with money of any stranger ,
who is not of thy seed .
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He that is born in thy house ,
and he that is bought with thy money ,
must needs be circumcised :
and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant .
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And the uncircumcised male-child ,
whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised ,
that soul shall be cut off from his people ;
he hath broken my covenant .
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And God said to Abraham ,
As for Sarai thy wife ,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai ,
but Sarah shall her name be .
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And I will bless her ,
and give thee a son also by her :
yea ,
I will bless her ,
and she shall be a mother of nations ;
kings of people shall proceed from her .
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Then Abraham fell upon his face ,
and laughed ,
and said in his heart ,
Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old ?
and shall Sarah ,
who is ninety years old ,
bear ?
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And Abraham said to God ,
O that Ishmael might live before thee !
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And God said ,
Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed ;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac :
and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant ,
and with his seed after him .
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And as for Ishmael ,
I have heard thee :
Behold ,
I have blessed him ,
and will make him fruitful ,
and will multiply him exceedingly ;
twelve princes shall he beget ,
and I will make him a great nation .
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year .
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And he ceased talking with him ,
and God went up from Abraham .
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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 same day ,
as God had said to him .
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And Abraham was ninety and nine years old ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old ,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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In the same day was Abraham circumcised ,
and Ishmael his son .
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And all the men of his house ,
born in the house ,
and bought with money of the stranger ,
were circumcised with him .
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And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre :
and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ;
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And he lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and lo ,
three men stood by him :
and when he saw them ,
he ran to meet them from the tent door ,
and bowed himself toward the ground ,
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And said ,
My Lord ,
if now I have found favor in thy sight ,
pass not away ,
I pray thee ,
from thy servant :
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Let a little water ,
I pray you ,
be brought ,
and wash your feet ,
and rest yourselves under the tree :
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And I will bring a morsel of bread ,
and comfort ye your hearts ;
after that you shall pass on :
for therefore are ye come to your servant .
And they said ,
So do ,
as thou hast said .
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And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah ,
and said ,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal ,
knead it ,
and make cakes upon the hearth .
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And Abraham ran to the herd ,
and brought a calf tender and good ,
and gave it to a young man ;
and he hasted to dress it .
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And he took butter ,
and milk ,
and the calf which he had dressed ,
and set it before them ;
and he stood by them under the tree ,
and they ate .
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And they said to him ,
Where is Sarah thy wife ?
And he said ,
Behold ,
in the tent .
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And he said ,
I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life ;
and lo ,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son .
And Sarah heard it in the tent door ,
which was behind him .
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age ;
and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women .
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Therefore Sarah laughed within herself ,
saying ,
After I am become old shall I have pleasure ,
my lord being old also ?
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And the LORD said to Abraham ,
Why did Sarah laugh ,
saying ,
Shall I certainly bear a child ,
who am old ?
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Is any thing too hard for the LORD ?
At the time appointed I will return to thee ,
according to the time of life ,
and Sarah shall have a son .
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Then Sarah denied ,
saying ,
I laughed not ;
for she was afraid .
And he said ,
Nay ;
but thou didst laugh .
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And the men rose up from thence ,
and looked toward Sodom :
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way .
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And the LORD said ,
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ;
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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation ,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ?
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For I know him ,
that he will command his children and his household after him ,
and they will keep the way of the LORD ,
to do justice and judgment ;
that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him .
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And the LORD said ,
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great ,
and because their sin is very grievous ;
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I will go down now ,
and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it ,
which is come to me ;
and if not ,
I will know .
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And the men turned their faces from thence ,
and went towards Sodom :
but Abraham stood yet before the LORD .
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And Abraham drew near ,
and said ,
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked ?
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Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city :
wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it ?
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That be far from thee to do after this manner ,
to slay the righteous with the wicked :
and that the righteous should be as the wicked ,
that be far from thee :
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ?
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And the LORD said ,
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city ,
then I will spare all the place for their sakes .
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And Abraham answered and said ,
Behold now ,
I ,
who am dust and ashes ,
have taken upon me to speak to the Lord .
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Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous :
wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five ?
And he said ,
If I find there forty and five ,
I will not destroy it .
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And he spoke to him yet again ,
and said ,
Peradventure there will be forty found there .
And he said ,
I will not do it for forty '
s sake .
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And he said ,
Oh ,
let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak :
Peradventure there will thirty be found there .
And he said ,
I will not do it ,
if I find thirty there .
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And he said ,
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord :
Peradventure there will be twenty found there .
And he said ,
I will not destroy it for twenty '
s sake .
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And he said ,
Oh let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak yet but this once :
Peradventure ten will be found there .
And he said ,
I will not destroy it for ten '
s sake .
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And the LORD went his way ,
as soon as he had left communing with Abraham :
and Abraham returned to his place .
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And there came two angels to Sodom at evening ;
and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom ;
and Lot seeing them ,
rose to meet them ;
and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground ;
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And he said ,
Behold now ,
my lords ,
turn ,
I pray you ,
into your servant '
s house ,
and tarry all night ,
and wash your feet ,
and ye shall rise early ,
and go on your ways .
And they said ,
Nay ;
but we will abide in the street all night .
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And he urged them greatly ;
and they turned in to him ,
and entered into his house ;
and he made them a feast ,
and baked unleavened bread ,
and they ate .
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But before they lay down ,
the men of the city ,
even the men of Sodom ,
surrounded the house ,
both old and young ,
all the people from every quarter :
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And they called to Lot ,
and said to him ,
Where are the men who came in to thee this night ?
bring them out to us ,
that we may know them .
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And Lot went out at the door to them ,
and shut the door after him ,
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And said ,
I pray you ,
brethren ,
do not so wickedly .
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Behold now ,
I have two daughters who have not known man ;
let me ,
I pray you ,
bring them out to you ,
and do ye to them as is good in your eyes :
only to these men do nothing ;
for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof .
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And they said ,
Stand back .
And they said again ,
This one man came in to sojourn ,
and he will needs be a judge :
Now will we deal worse with thee than with them .
And they pressed hard upon the man ,
Lot ,
and came near to break the door .
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But the men put forth their hand ,
and pulled Lot into the house to them ,
and shut the door .
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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 .
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And the men said to Lot ,
Hast thou here any besides ?
son-in-law ,
and thy sons ,
and thy daughters ,
and whatever thou hast in the city ,
bring them out of this place :
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For we will destroy this place ,
because the cry of them has become great before the face of the LORD ;
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it .
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And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law ,
who married his daughters ,
and said ,
Arise ,
depart from this place ;
for the LORD will destroy this city :
but he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked .
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And when the morning arose ,
then the angels hastened Lot ,
saying ,
Arise ,
take thy wife ,
and thy two daughters who are here ;
lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city .
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And while he lingered ,
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 to him :
and they brought him forth ,
and set him without the city .
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And it came to pass ,
when they had brought them forth abroad ,
that he said ,
Escape for thy life :
look not behind thee ,
neither stay thou in all the plain :
escape to the mountain ,
lest thou be consumed .
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And Lot said to them ,
Oh ,
not so ,
my Lord !
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Behold now ,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight ,
and thou hast magnified thy mercy ,
which thou hast shown to me in saving my life :
and I cannot escape to the mountain ,
lest some evil should take me ,
and I die :
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Behold now ,
this city is near to flee to ,
and it is a small one :
Oh ,
let me escape thither ! (
Is it not a small one ?)
and my soul shall live .
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And he said to him ,
See ,
I have accepted thee concerning this thing also ,
that I will not overthrow this city ,
for which thou hast spoken .
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Haste thee ,
escape thither :
for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither :
therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .
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The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar .
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Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ;
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And he overthrew those cities ,
and all the plain ,
and all the inhabitants of the cities ,
and that which grew upon the ground .
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But his wife looked back from behind him ,
and she became a pillar of salt .
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And Abraham rose early in the morning ,
to the place were he stood before the LORD :
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And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and towards all the land of the plain ,
and beheld ,
and lo ,
the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace .
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And it came to pass ,
when God destroyed the cities of the plain ,
that God remembered Abraham ,
and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow ,
when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt .
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And Lot went up from 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 .
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And the first-born said to the younger ,
Our father is old ,
and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth :
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Come ,
let us make our father drink wine ,
and we will lie with him ,
that we may preserve seed of our father .
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And they made their father drink wine that night :
and the first-born went in and lay with her father ;
and he perceived not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
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And it came to pass on the morrow that the first born said to the younger ,
Behold ,
I lay yesternight with my father ;
let us make him drink wine this night also ;
and go thou in ,
and lie with him ,
that we may preserve seed of our father .
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And they made their father drink wine that night also :
and the younger arose and lay with him ;
and he perceived not when she lay down ,
nor when she arose .
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father .
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And the first-born bore a son ,
and called his name Moab :
the same is the father of the Moabites to this day .
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And the younger ,
she also bore a son ,
and called his name Ben-ammi :
the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day .
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