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And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
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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.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
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From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
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What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
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The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
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Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
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So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
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“Come, you who are blessed by the Lord,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
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When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
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When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
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He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
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Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.
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He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
