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Genesis:1:9 @ Then God said: »Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear.« It was so.
nsb@Genesis:1:14 @ Then God said: »Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
nsb@Genesis:1:15 @ »Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.« It was so.
nsb@Genesis:1:16 @ God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also.
nsb@Genesis:1:17 @ He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth.
nsb@Genesis:1:18 @ The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.
nsb@Genesis:1:24 @ God said: »Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.« It was so.
nsb@Genesis:1:25 @ God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
nsb@Genesis:1:26 @ Then God said: »Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.«
nsb@Genesis:1:28 @ God blessed them and said to them: »Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.«
nsb@Genesis:2:5 @ No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth. No plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth. There was no man to work the ground.
nsb@Genesis:2:7 @ Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.
nsb@Genesis:2:9 @ Jehovah God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
nsb@Genesis:2:10 @ A river watering the garden flowed from Eden. From there it was separated into four headwaters.
nsb@Genesis:2:12 @ The gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
nsb@Genesis:2:15 @ Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
nsb@Genesis:2:16 @ Jehovah God commanded the man: »You are free to eat from any tree in the garden.
nsb@Genesis:2:18 @ Jehovah God said: »It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.«
nsb@Genesis:2:19 @ Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
nsb@Genesis:2:20 @ So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But no suitable helper was found for Adam.
nsb@Genesis:2:21 @ Jehovah God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping, he took one of the mans ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
nsb@Genesis:2:22 @ Then Jehovah made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. He brought her to the man.
nsb@Genesis:2:24 @ This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.
nsb@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: »Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?«
nsb@Genesis:3:2 @ The woman said to the serpent: »We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
nsb@Genesis:3:3 @ »However, God did say: You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it, or you will die.«
nsb@Genesis:3:4 @ »You will not die,« the serpent said to the woman.
nsb@Genesis:3:6 @ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
nsb@Genesis:3:7 @ Then the eyes of both of them were opened. They realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
nsb@Genesis:3:9 @ But Jehovah God called to the man: »Where are you?«
nsb@Genesis:3:11 @ And he said: »Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?«
nsb@Genesis:3:13 @ Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: »What is this you have done?« The woman answered: »The serpent deceived me, and I ate.«
nsb@Genesis:3:14 @ So Jehovah God said to the serpent: »Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
nsb@Genesis:3:16 @ He said to the woman: »I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.«
nsb@Genesis:3:17 @ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You must not eat of it, cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
nsb@Genesis:3:19 @ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.«
nsb@Genesis:3:22 @ Jehovah said: »The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.«
nsb@Genesis:3:23 @ Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
nsb@Genesis:3:24 @ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
nsb@Genesis:4:1 @ Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: »With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.«
nsb@Genesis:4:2 @ Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
nsb@Genesis:4:3 @ As time went by, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:4:6 @ Jehovah said to Cain: »Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
nsb@Genesis:4:7 @ »If you do what is right, will not your attitude improve? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it.«
nsb@Genesis:4:10 @ Jehovah said: »What have you done? Listen! Your brothers blood cries out to me from the ground.
nsb@Genesis:4:11 @ »Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brothers blood from your hand.
nsb@Genesis:4:13 @ Cain said to Jehovah: »My punishment is more than I can bear.
nsb@Genesis:4:14 @ »You are driving me from the land today. I will be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless wanderer on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me.«
nsb@Genesis:4:15 @ Jehovah replied to him: »If anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.« Then Jehovah put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
nsb@Genesis:4:17 @ Cain had intercourse with his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Later Cain built a city. He named it after his son Enoch.
nsb@Genesis:4:18 @ To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
nsb@Genesis:4:20 @ Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.
nsb@Genesis:4:22 @ Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of copper and iron. Tubal-Cains sister was Naamah.
nsb@Genesis:4:23 @ Lamech said to his wives: »Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
nsb@Genesis:4:25 @ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.«
nsb@Genesis:4:26 @ Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:5:5 @ Altogether, Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:8 @ Altogether, Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:11 @ Enosh lived a total of nine hundred and five years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:14 @ Altogether, Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:17 @ Mahalalel lived a total of eight hundred and ninety-five years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:20 @ Jared lived a total of nine hundred and sixty-two years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:23 @ Altogether, Enoch lived three hundred and sixty-five years.
nsb@Genesis:5:24 @ Enoch walked with God. Then he was no more, because God took him away.
nsb@Genesis:5:27 @ Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:5:29 @ He named him Noah. He said: »He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.«
nsb@Genesis:5:31 @ Lamech lived a total of seven hundred seventy-seven years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:6:1 @ Men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them.
nsb@Genesis:6:13 @ God said to Noah: »I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.
nsb@Genesis:6:15 @ »This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
nsb@Genesis:6:16 @ »Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
nsb@Genesis:6:17 @ »I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish.
nsb@Genesis:6:19 @ »Bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
nsb@Genesis:6:20 @ »Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
nsb@Genesis:6:21 @ »Take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.«
nsb@Genesis:7:1 @ Jehovah said to Noah: »Go into the ark, you and your whole family. For I have found you righteous in this generation.
nsb@Genesis:7:3 @ »Also take seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
nsb@Genesis:7:7 @ Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
nsb@Genesis:7:9 @ male and female came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
nsb@Genesis:7:13 @ Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
nsb@Genesis:7:14 @ They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
nsb@Genesis:7:15 @ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
nsb@Genesis:7:20 @ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.
nsb@Genesis:7:21 @ Every living thing that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
nsb@Genesis:8:1 @ God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark. He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
nsb@Genesis:8:2 @ The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the skies were closed. So the rain stopped falling from the sky.
nsb@Genesis:8:4 @ On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
nsb@Genesis:8:5 @ The waters continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
nsb@Genesis:8:8 @ Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
nsb@Genesis:8:9 @ The dove, however, could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth. It returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and held the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
nsb@Genesis:8:11 @ When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
nsb@Genesis:8:12 @ He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
nsb@Genesis:8:15 @ God said to Noah:
nsb@Genesis:8:18 @ Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons wives.
nsb@Genesis:8:20 @ Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
nsb@Genesis:9:8 @ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
nsb@Genesis:9:10 @ "and with every living creature that was with you, the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you, every living creature on earth.
nsb@Genesis:9:11 @ »I establish my covenant with you: Never again will the waters of a flood destroy all life. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.«
nsb@Genesis:9:12 @ God said: »This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
nsb@Genesis:9:15 @ »I will remember my covenant with you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters flood to destroy all life.
nsb@Genesis:9:22 @ Ham, father of Canaan, saw his fathers nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
nsb@Genesis:9:23 @ Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked in backward and covered their fathers nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their fathers nakedness.
nsb@Genesis:9:24 @ Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him.
nsb@Genesis:9:25 @ He said: »Canaan is cursed! He will be a lowly slave to his brothers.«
nsb@Genesis:9:27 @ »May God extend the territory of Japheth. And may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.«
nsb@Genesis:9:29 @ Noah lived a total of nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
nsb@Genesis:10:3 @ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
nsb@Genesis:10:5 @ From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
nsb@Genesis:10:8 @ Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
nsb@Genesis:10:11 @ From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
nsb@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathrusites, Casluhites, and Caphtorites.
nsb@Genesis:10:19 @ and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
nsb@Genesis:10:20 @ These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
nsb@Genesis:10:21 @ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
nsb@Genesis:10:25 @ Two sons were born to Eber. One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided. His brother was named Joktan.
nsb@Genesis:10:30 @ The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
nsb@Genesis:10:31 @ These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
nsb@Genesis:10:32 @ These are the clans of Noahs sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
nsb@Genesis:11:3 @ They said to each other: »Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.« They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
nsb@Genesis:11:4 @ Then they said: »Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.«
nsb@Genesis:11:5 @ But Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
nsb@Genesis:11:6 @ Jehovah said: »If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.
nsb@Genesis:11:8 @ Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city.
nsb@Genesis:11:31 @ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
nsb@Genesis:12:1 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Leave your country, your people, and your fathers household, and go to the land I will show you.
nsb@Genesis:12:2 @ »I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.
nsb@Genesis:12:4 @ So Abram left, just as Jehovah told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
nsb@Genesis:12:5 @ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.
nsb@Genesis:12:7 @ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring.« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.
nsb@Genesis:12:8 @ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:12:9 @ Abram continued toward the Negev.
nsb@Genesis:12:10 @ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.
nsb@Genesis:12:11 @ He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: »I know what a beautiful woman you are.
nsb@Genesis:12:14 @ When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
nsb@Genesis:12:15 @ Pharaohs officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.
nsb@Genesis:12:18 @ So Pharaoh summoned Abram. »What have you done to me?« he asked. »Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
nsb@Genesis:12:19 @ »Why did you say: She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!«
nsb@Genesis:12:20 @ Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
nsb@Genesis:13:1 @ Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
nsb@Genesis:13:2 @ Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
nsb@Genesis:13:3 @ He traveled from place to place from the Negev until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier.
nsb@Genesis:13:6 @ But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
nsb@Genesis:13:8 @ Abram said to Lot: »Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
nsb@Genesis:13:9 @ »Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left.«
nsb@Genesis:13:10 @ Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
nsb@Genesis:13:11 @ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
nsb@Genesis:13:14 @ After Lot had parted from Abram, Jehovah said to Abram: »Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
nsb@Genesis:13:15 @ »All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring from generation to generation.
nsb@Genesis:13:17 @ »Go walk through the length and breadth of the land that I am giving to you.«
nsb@Genesis:13:18 @ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.
nsb@Genesis:14:7 @ They turned back and came to En-mishpat, and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
nsb@Genesis:14:10 @ The Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits. As the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them. The rest fled to the hill country.
nsb@Genesis:14:11 @ The enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food provisions, and went their way.
nsb@Genesis:14:13 @ Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. He was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. They were Abrams allies.
nsb@Genesis:14:15 @ He divided his forces against them by night. He and his servants routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
nsb@Genesis:14:17 @ As soon as the king of Sodom returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, he went out to meet Abram at the King's Valley of Shaveh.
nsb@Genesis:14:20 @ »Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!« Abram gave him one tenth of everything.
nsb@Genesis:14:21 @ Then the king of Sodom said to Abram: »Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.«
nsb@Genesis:14:22 @ But Abram said to the king of Sodom: »I have sworn to Jehovah, God Most High, maker of heaven and earth:
nsb@Genesis:14:23 @ "I will take nothing. Not a thread or a sandal strap. You will not be able to say: 'I have made Abram rich.
nsb@Genesis:15:1 @ The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: »Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.«
nsb@Genesis:15:3 @ Abram also said: »You have given me no offspring. So a slave born in my house is to be my heir.«
nsb@Genesis:15:4 @ The word of Jehovah came to him: »This man shall not be your heir. No one but your very own issue shall be your heir.«
nsb@Genesis:15:5 @ He brought him outside and said: »Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them?« He continued: »So shall your descendants be.«
nsb@Genesis:15:7 @ Then God said to him: »I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.«
nsb@Genesis:15:9 @ He said to him: »Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.«
nsb@Genesis:15:13 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.
nsb@Genesis:15:15 @ »As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace. You shall be buried at a good old age.
nsb@Genesis:15:17 @ The sun went down and it was dark. A smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
nsb@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
nsb@Genesis:16:2 @ She said to Abram: »Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her.« Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
nsb@Genesis:16:3 @ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.
nsb@Genesis:16:4 @ Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
nsb@Genesis:16:5 @ Then Sarai said to Abram: »You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.«
nsb@Genesis:16:7 @ The angel of Jehovah found Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
nsb@Genesis:16:9 @ Then the angel of Jehovah told her: »Go back to your mistress and submit to her.
nsb@Genesis:16:10 @ »I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.«
nsb@Genesis:16:12 @ »He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyones hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.«
nsb@Genesis:16:13 @ She called the name of Jehovah, who spoke to her: »You are the God who sees me, for she said, I have not seen the one who sees me."
nsb@Genesis:16:15 @ Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
nsb@Genesis:17:1 @ Abram was ninety-nine years old. Jehovah appeared to him and said: »I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
nsb@Genesis:17:3 @ Abram fell on his face and God said to him:
nsb@Genesis:17:7 @ »I will establish my covenant as a long lasting covenant between us. It will be for your descendants after you, for the generations to come. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
nsb@Genesis:17:8 @ »The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest, I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.«
nsb@Genesis:17:9 @ Then God said to Abraham: »As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
nsb@Genesis:17:10 @ »This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
nsb@Genesis:17:11 @ »You are to undergo circumcision. It will be the sign of the covenant between us.
nsb@Genesis:17:12 @ »For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised. This includes those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner, those who are not your offspring.
nsb@Genesis:17:13 @ »Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be a long lasting covenant.
nsb@Genesis:17:17 @ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?«
nsb@Genesis:17:18 @ Abraham said to God: »If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!«
nsb@Genesis:17:20 @ »Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
nsb@Genesis:17:21 @ »But my covenant I will establish with Isaac. Sarah will bear him to you by this time next year.«
nsb@Genesis:17:23 @ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
nsb@Genesis:18:1 @ Jehovah appeared again to Abraham by the oak grove of Mamre. He was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
nsb@Genesis:18:2 @ He looked up and noticed three men coming toward him. He ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed to the ground.
nsb@Genesis:18:5 @ »I will bring a bite to eat to refresh you. Stay a while before you continue your journey.« They responded: »Very well, do as you have said.«
nsb@Genesis:18:6 @ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: »Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.«
nsb@Genesis:18:7 @ Then Abraham ran to the herd. He selected a fat calf and told a servant to butcher it and prepare it.
nsb@Genesis:18:8 @ He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
nsb@Genesis:18:9 @ Then they said to him: »Where is Sarah your wife«? He responded: »Here, in the tent.«
nsb@Genesis:18:12 @ Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: "After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also."
nsb@Genesis:18:13 @ Jehovah said to Abraham: »Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?'
nsb@Genesis:18:14 @ »Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!«
nsb@Genesis:18:16 @ Then the men stood up from their meal and started in the direction of Sodom. Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
nsb@Genesis:18:19 @ »I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.«
nsb@Genesis:18:21 @ »I will go down now and see whether they have done the bad things I have been told. Then I will know.«
nsb@Genesis:18:22 @ The men left there and went toward Sodom. Abraham still stood before Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:18:27 @ Then Abraham answered and said: »Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:
nsb@Genesis:18:31 @ Abraham then said: »Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah: Suppose twenty should be found there?« God replied: »I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.«
nsb@Genesis:18:33 @ Jehovah went his way as soon as he finished speaking with Abraham. Abraham returned to his place.
nsb@Genesis:19:1 @ That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he got up to greet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground.
nsb@Genesis:19:2 @ »My lords,« he said, »come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may get up in the morning as early as you like and be on your way again.« »Oh no,« they said, »We will spend the night out here in the city square.«
nsb@Genesis:19:4 @ They prepared to retire for the night when suddenly all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.
nsb@Genesis:19:5 @ They shouted to Lot: »Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out so we can have sex with them!«
nsb@Genesis:19:6 @ Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him.
nsb@Genesis:19:9 @ »Stand back!« they shouted. »Who do you think you are? We let you settle among us, and now you are trying to tell us what to do! We will treat you far worse than those other men!« They pushed Lot and began breaking down the door.
nsb@Genesis:19:13 @ »We will destroy the city completely. The stench of the place has reached Jehovah. He has sent us to destroy it.«
nsb@Genesis:19:14 @ Lot rushed out to tell his sons-in-law: »Hurry! Get out of the city! Jehovah is going to destroy it.« But the young men thought he was only joking.
nsb@Genesis:19:15 @ At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. They said to Lot: »Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out of here right now, or you will be caught in the destruction of the city.«
nsb@Genesis:19:16 @ Lot still hesitated. So the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for Jehovah was merciful.
nsb@Genesis:19:17 @ »Run for your lives!« The angels warned. »Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.«
nsb@Genesis:19:19 @ »You have been so kind to me and saved my life, and you have granted me such mercy. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.
nsb@Genesis:19:21 @ The angel said to him: »All right, I will grant you this request too. I will not destroy the city you are talking about.
nsb@Genesis:19:23 @ The sun had just risen over the land as Lot came to Zoar.
nsb@Genesis:19:26 @ Lots wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
nsb@Genesis:19:27 @ Early the next morning Abraham came to the place where he had stood in front of Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:19:28 @ He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land in the Plain. He saw smoke rising from the land like the thick smoke of a furnace.
nsb@Genesis:19:29 @ When God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.
nsb@Genesis:19:30 @ Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.
nsb@Genesis:19:31 @ The older daughter said to her sister: »Our father is getting old. There are no men in the whole world to marry us so we can have children.
nsb@Genesis:19:33 @ That night they gave him wine to drink. The older daughter had intercourse with him. But he was so drunk that he did not know it.
nsb@Genesis:19:34 @ The next day the older daughter said to her sister: »I slept with him last night. Let us get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father.«
nsb@Genesis:19:37 @ The older daughter had a son, whom she named Moab. He was the ancestor of the present-day Moabites.
nsb@Genesis:19:38 @ The younger daughter also had a son, whom she named Ben-ammi. He was the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites.
nsb@Genesis:20:1 @ Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar,
nsb@Genesis:20:2 @ he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
nsb@Genesis:20:3 @ God appeared to the king in a dream and said: »You are going to die, because you have taken this woman. She is already married.«
nsb@Genesis:20:6 @ God said to him in a dream: »Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
nsb@Genesis:20:7 @ »Give the mans wife back to him now. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.«
nsb@Genesis:20:8 @ So Abimelech got up early in the morning. He called all his servants and told them everything. The men were very afraid.
nsb@Genesis:20:9 @ Then Abimelech called Abraham. He said to him: »What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you? You have brought a great sin on me and on my kingdom. You have done to me things that ought not to be done.«
nsb@Genesis:20:13 @ »When God had me leave my fathers home and travel around, I said to her: 'Do me a favor: Wherever we go, say that I am your brother.'"
nsb@Genesis:20:14 @ Abimelech took sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.
nsb@Genesis:20:16 @ He said to Sarah: »Do not forget that I have given your brother twenty-five pounds of silver. This is to silence any criticism against you from everyone with you. You are completely cleared.«
nsb@Genesis:20:17 @ Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could have children.
nsb@Genesis:20:18 @ Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelechs household to have children because of Abrahams wife Sarah.
nsb@Genesis:21:1 @ Jehovah was gracious to Sarah, as he had said. Jehovah did for Sarah what he had promised.
nsb@Genesis:21:2 @ Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him.
nsb@Genesis:21:3 @ Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.
nsb@Genesis:21:5 @ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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