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The Flood
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.
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Abram Journeys to Egypt
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;
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Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
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But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Abram said, “O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
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And Abram said, “Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir.”
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And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.
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A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
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Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said to him.
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All the men of his household, who were born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”
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And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”
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Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
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But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
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They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
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and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
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For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
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Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh,
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The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
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and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father’s house?”
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He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”
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Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
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And he said, “Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”