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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
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against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
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The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away.
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Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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“Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
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Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.
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He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
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It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
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Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
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When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
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Jacob Meets Esau
Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.
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These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob—fourteen in all.
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But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”
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Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
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In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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Protection of Property
“Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
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Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
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Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
