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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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The Hamites
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
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Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
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Abram in Egypt
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
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When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
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Abram and Lot Separate
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
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Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
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So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
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While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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Ishmael’s Sons
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
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His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
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The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
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Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
