Genesis:15-17
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After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision , "
Fear not ,
Abram ,
I am your shield ;
your reward shall be very great ."
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But Abram said , "
O Lord GOD ,
what wilt thou give me ,
for I continue childless ,
and the heir of my house is Elie '
zer of Damascus ?"
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And Abram said , "
Behold ,
thou hast given me no offspring ;
and a slave born in my house will be my heir ."
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And behold ,
the word of the LORD came to him , "
This man shall not be your heir ;
your own son shall be your heir ."
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And he brought him outside and said , "
Look toward heaven ,
and number the stars ,
if you are able to number them ."
Then he said to him , "
So shall your descendants be ."
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And he believed the LORD ;
and he reckoned it to him as righteousness .
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And he said to him , "
I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde '
ans ,
to give you this land to possess ."
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But he said , "
O Lord GOD ,
how am I to know that I shall possess it ?"
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He said to him , "
Bring me a heifer three years old ,
a she-goat three years old ,
a ram three years old ,
a turtledove ,
and a young pigeon ."
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And he brought him all these ,
cut them in two ,
and laid each half over against the other ;
but he did not cut the birds in two .
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And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses ,
Abram drove them away .
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As the sun was going down ,
a deep sleep fell on Abram ;
and lo ,
a dread and great darkness fell upon him .
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Then the LORD said to Abram , "
Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs ,
and will be slaves there ,
and they will be oppressed for four hundred years ;
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but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve ,
and afterward they shall come out with great possessions .
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As for yourself ,
you shall go to your fathers in peace ;
you shall be buried in a good old age .
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And they shall come back here in the fourth generation ;
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete ."
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When the sun had gone down and it was dark ,
behold ,
a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces .
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram ,
saying , "
To your descendants I give this land ,
from the river of Egypt to the great river ,
the river Euphra '
tes ,
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the land of the Ken '
ites ,
the Ken '
izzites ,
the Kad '
monites ,
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the Hittites ,
the Per '
izzites ,
the Reph '
aim ,
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the Amorites ,
the Canaanites ,
the Gir '
gashites and the Jeb '
usites ."
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Now Sar '
ai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
bore him no children .
She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar ;
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and Sar '
ai said to Abram , "
Behold now ,
the LORD has prevented me from bearing children ;
go in to my maid ;
it may be that I shall obtain children by her ."
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar '
ai .
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So ,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan ,
Sar '
ai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
took Hagar the Egyptian ,
her maid ,
and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife .
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And he went in to Hagar ,
and she conceived ;
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
she looked with contempt on her mistress .
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And Sar '
ai said to Abram , "
May the wrong done to me be on you !
I gave my maid to your embrace ,
and when she saw that she had conceived ,
she looked on me with contempt .
May the LORD judge between you and me !"
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But Abram said to Sar '
ai , "
Behold ,
your maid is in your power ;
do to her as you please ."
Then Sar '
ai dealt harshly with her ,
and she fled from her .
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The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness ,
the spring on the way to Shur .
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And he said , "
Hagar ,
maid of Sar '
ai ,
where have you come from and where are you going ?"
She said , "
I am fleeing from my mistress Sar '
ai ."
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The angel of the LORD said to her , "
Return to your mistress ,
and submit to her ."
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The angel of the LORD also said to her , "
I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude ."
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And the angel of the LORD said to her , "
Behold ,
you are with child ,
and shall bear a son ;
you shall call his name Ish '
mael ;
because the LORD has given heed to your affliction .
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He shall be a wild ass of a man ,
his hand against every man and every man '
s hand against him ;
and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen ."
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So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her , "
Thou art a God of seeing ";
for she said , "
Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him ?"
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Therefore the well was called Beer-la '
hai-roi ;
it lies between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar bore Abram a son ;
and Abram called the name of his son ,
whom Hagar bore ,
Ish '
mael .
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish '
mael to Abram .
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram ,
and said to him , "
I am God Almighty ;
walk before me ,
and be blameless .
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And I will make my covenant between me and you ,
and will multiply you exceedingly ."
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Then Abram fell on his face ;
and God said to him ,
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Behold ,
my covenant is with you ,
and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations .
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No longer shall your name be Abram ,
but your name shall be Abraham ;
for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations .
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful ;
and I will make nations of you ,
and kings shall come forth from you .
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And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant ,
to be God to you and to your descendants after you .
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And I will give to you ,
and to your descendants after you ,
the land of your sojournings ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession ;
and I will be their God ."
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And God said to Abraham , "
As for you ,
you shall keep my covenant ,
you and your descendants after you throughout their generations .
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This is my covenant ,
which you shall keep ,
between me and you and your descendants after you :
Every male among you shall be circumcised .
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins ,
and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you .
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He that is eight days old among you shall be circumcised ;
every male throughout your generations ,
whether born in your house ,
or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring ,
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both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money ,
shall be circumcised .
So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant .
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Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people ;
he has broken my covenant ."
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And God said to Abraham , "
As for Sar '
ai your wife ,
you shall not call her name Sar '
ai ,
but Sarah shall be her name .
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I will bless her ,
and moreover I will give you a son by her ;
I will bless her ,
and she shall be a mother of nations ;
kings of peoples shall come from her ."
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Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed ,
and said to himself , "
Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old ?
Shall Sarah ,
who is ninety years old ,
bear a child ?"
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And Abraham said to God , "
O that Ish '
mael might live in thy sight !"
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God said , "
No ,
but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son ,
and you shall call his name Isaac .
I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him .
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As for Ish '
mael ,
I have heard you ;
behold ,
I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly ;
he shall be the father of twelve princes ,
and I will make him a great nation .
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But I will establish my covenant with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year ."
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When he had finished talking with him ,
God went up from Abraham .
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Then Abraham took Ish '
mael his son and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money ,
every male among the men of Abraham '
s house ,
and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day ,
as God had said to him .
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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And Ish '
mael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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That very day Abraham and his son Ish '
mael were circumcised ;
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and all the men of his house ,
those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner ,
were circumcised with him .
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And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre ,
as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day .
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