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When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
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The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
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Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”
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And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
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And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
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When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
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Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
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When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
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Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
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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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Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”
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Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.
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Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
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yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.
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Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”
