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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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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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When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
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Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
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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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I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
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Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.
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Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
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Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
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Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
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He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
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Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid.
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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
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And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”
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Isaac and Rebekah
Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
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The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
