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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
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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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Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.
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But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
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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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Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
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The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
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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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Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
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The Death of Sarah
Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
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Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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The Death of Abraham
Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
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After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
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So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
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Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”
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Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.
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Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?
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The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
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But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.
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Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”
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What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
