But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he (A)sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to (B)the country of the east.

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14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and [a]a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and (A)sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:14 A water bottle made of skins

So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the (A)people of the East would come up against them.

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17 (A)Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, (B)gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with (C)food and gladness.”

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11 (A)If a son asks for [a]bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give (B)good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

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  1. Luke 11:11 NU omits bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for

45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for (A)He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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14 With Your hand from men, O Lord,
From men of the world who have their portion in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your hidden treasure.
They are satisfied with children,
And leave the rest of their possession for their babes.

15 As for me, (A)I will see Your face in righteousness;
(B)I shall be satisfied when I (C)awake in Your likeness.

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Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the [a]people of the East.

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  1. Job 1:3 Lit. sons

Job and His Family in Uz

There was a man (A)in the land of Uz, whose name was (B)Job; and that man was (C)blameless and upright, and one who (D)feared God and [a]shunned evil.

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  1. Job 1:1 Lit. turned away from

Now his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, detained him; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.

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The Levite’s Concubine

19 And it came to pass in those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from (B)Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months.

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22 And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and (A)lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard about it.

Jacob’s Twelve Sons

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

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Wrestling with God

22 And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, (A)and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.

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Abraham and Keturah(A)

25 Abraham again took a wife, and her name was (B)Keturah.

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Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram (A)had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

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When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and (A)gave her to Jacob as wife.

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Then she gave him Bilhah her maid (A)as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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