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11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12 T And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonin-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

16 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 unto him; and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord!

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life: and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither! (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

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Sodom and upon Gomorral stone and fire from the L of heaven;

25 And he overthrew thos and all the plain, and all th bitants of the cities, and tha grew upon the ground.

26 But his wife looke from behind him, and she be pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham gat u in the morning to the place he stood before the LORD:

28 And he looked toward and Gomorrah, and toward land of the plain, and behel lo, the smoke of the country up as the smoke of a furnace

29 T And it came to pass, God destroyed the cities o plain, that God remembered ham, and sent Lot out of the of the overthrow, when he threw the cities in the which dwelt.

30 T And Lot went up o Zoar, and dwelt in the moun and his two daughters with for he feared to dwell in Zoar he dwelt in a cave, he, and his daughters.

31 T And the first-born said the younger, Our father is old, there is not a man in the eart come in unto us after the ma of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our fa drink wine, and we will lie him, that we may preserve see our father.

33 And they made their fat drink wine that night: and the fi born went in, and lay with her ther; and he perceived not wi she lay down, nor when she ard

34 And it came to pass on morrow, that the first-born s unto the younger, Behold, I yesternight with my father: let make him drink wine this nig also; and go thou in, and lie wi him, that we may preserve seed our father.

35 And they made their fath drink wine that night also: and t younger arose, and lay with hin and he perceived not when she l 21 And he said unto him, See, I down, nor when she arose. have accepted thee concerning this 36 Thus were both the dang thing also, that I will not over-ters of Lot with child by the throw this city, for the which thou father. hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 1 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained upon

37 And the first-born bare a so and called his name Moab: th same is the father of the Moabite unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also ba a son, and called his namo Ber ammi: the same is the father of th children of Ammon unto this day.

Abimelech restores

CHAP. XXI.

CHAP. XX. Abraham denieth his Wife.

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thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken: for she is a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my Bister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

6 And God said unto him in a

dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinping against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

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

8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

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

12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she became my wife.

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

Sarah to Abraham

14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and

unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

17 T So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech,because of Sarah,Abraham's wife. CHAP. XXI.

The Birth of Isaac.

he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

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2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

6 ¶ And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.

8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking

10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond-woman, and her son: for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah

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hath said unto thee, hearken unto and oxen, and gave th her voice for in Isaac shall thy Abimelech: and both seed be called. made a covenant.

13 And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16 And she went, and sat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and

wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

him in thy hand: for I will make 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold

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

20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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

22 T And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

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

24 And Abraham said, I will

swear.

25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.

27 And Abraham took sheep

28 And Abraham ewe-lambs of the flock 1 selves.

29 And Abimelech st Abraham, What mean the ewe-lambs, which thou ha themselves?

30 And he said, For the ewe-lambs shalt thou tak hand, that they may be a unto me that I have dig well.

31 Wherefore he call place Beer-sheba; becaus they sware both of them.

32 Thus they made a c at Beer-sheba: then Abi rose up, and Phichol th captain of his host, and t turned into the land of the tines.

33 T And Abraham pla grove in Beer-sheba, and there on the name of the the everlasting God.

34 And Abraham sojourn the Philistines' land many di CHAP. XXII. Trial of Abraham's Fai

things, that God did AND it came to after Abraham, and said unto Abraham: And he said, Be here I am.

2 And he said, Take no son, thine only son Isaac, v thou lovest, and get thee int land of Moriah; and offer there for a burnt-offering upor of the mountains which I wil thee of

31 And Abraham rose up in the morning, and saddled hi and took two of his young with him, and Isaac his son, clave the wood for the burnt-o ing, and rose up, and went the place of which God had him.

4 Then on the third day A ham lifted up his eyes, and saw place afar off.

5 And Abraham said unto young men, Abide ye here with ass, and I and the lad will go der and worship, and come a to you.

6 And Abraham took the w of the burnt-offering, and lai upon Isaac his son; and he t the fire in his hand and a knife: they went both of them togethe

7 And Isaac spake unto AL ham his father, and said, My ther: and he said, Here am I, son. And he said, Behold

Abraham's faith.

CHAP. XXIII. fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together.

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

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

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

14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

15 T And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only

son:

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his encinies;

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor;

21 Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

Sarah's death

23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

CHAP. XXIII.

Death and Burial of Sarah. AND Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: And Abrahanı came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

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

5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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

7 And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me, for a possession of a burying place among you.

10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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

12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and land, saying, But if thou wilt give Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.it, I pray thee, hear me: I will

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give thee money for the field: take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

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house, and from the la kindred, and which spake and that sware unto me Unto thy seed will I give he shall send his angel be and thou shalt take a wife son from thence.

8 And if the woman wi willing to follow thee, t shalt be clear from this mi only bring not my son again.

16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had 9 And the servant put named in the audience of the sons under the thigh of Abra of Heth, four hundred shekels of master, and sware to him silver, current money with the mer-ing that matter. chant.

17 T And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure

18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

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

20 And the field, and the cave that is therein were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, by the sons of Heth.

CHAP. XXIV.

A Wife sought for Isaac.

AND Abraham was old and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand undor my thigh:

3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell:

4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my son thither again.

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10 1 And the servant t camels, of the camels of his and departed; (for all the his master were in his han he arose, and went to Me mia, unto the city of Nahor

11 And he made his ca kneel down without the ci well of water, at the time evening, even the time that go out to draw water:

12 T And he said, O LOR of my master Abraham, thee, send me good speed th and shew kindness unto my Abraham.

13 Behold, I stand here well of water; and the dau of the men of the city come draw water:

14 And let it come to pass the damsel to whom I shal Let down thy pitcher, I pray that I may drink; and she

say, Drink, and I will give

camels drink also: let the be she that thou hast appointe thy servant Isaac; and the shall I know that thou hast she kindness unto my master.

15 1 And it came to pass, b he had done speaking, that bel Rebekah came out, who was i to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the of Nahor, Abraham's brother, her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel was very to look upon, a virgin; neither any man known her: and she w down to the well, and filled pitcher, and came up.

17 And the servant ran to m her, and said, Let me, I pray th drink a little water of thy pitel

18 And she said, Drink, my lo and she hasted, and let down pitcher upon her hand, and go him drink.

19 And when she had done gi ing him drink, she said, I will dra water for thy camels also, un they have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and empti

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