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Genesis 18-22
New American Standard Bible
Genesis 18-22
New American Standard Bible
Birth of Isaac Promised
18 Now (A)the Lord appeared to [a]Abraham by the [b](B)oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 When he raised his eyes and looked, behold, three (C)men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down to the ground, 3 and said, “[c]My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, please do not [d]pass Your servant by. 4 Please let a little water be brought and (D)wash [e]your feet, and make yourselves comfortable under the tree; 5 and I will [f](E)bring a piece of bread, so that you may [g]refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have [h]visited your servant.” And they said, “So do as you have said.” 6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “[i]Quickly, prepare three [j]measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes.” 7 Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and [k]choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it. 8 He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree [l]as they ate.
9 Then they said to him, “Where is your wife Sarah?” And he said, “There, in the tent.” 10 He said, “(F)I will certainly return to you [m]at this time next year; and behold, your wife Sarah will have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now (G)Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was (H)past [n]childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed [o]to herself, saying, “(I)After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my (J)lord being old also?” 13 But the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?’ 14 (K)Is anything too [p]difficult for the Lord? At the (L)appointed time I will return to you, [q]at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” 15 Sarah denied it, however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
16 Then (M)the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off. 17 (N)The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham (O)what I am about to do, 18 since Abraham will certainly become a great and [r]mighty nation, and in him (P)all the nations of the earth will be blessed? 19 For I have [s](Q)chosen him, so that he may (R)command his children and his household after him to (S)keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham (T)what He has spoken about him.” 20 And the Lord said, “(U)The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. 21 I will (V)go down now and see whether they have done entirely as the outcry, which has come to Me indicates; and if not, I will know.”
Abraham Appeals for Sodom
22 Then (W)the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before (X)the Lord. 23 Abraham approached and said, “(Y)Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous people within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not [t]spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from You to do [u]such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not (Z)the Judge of all the earth [v]deal justly?” 26 So the Lord said, “(AA)If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will [w]spare the entire place on their account.” 27 And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have [x]ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am only (AB)dust and ashes. 28 Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the entire city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose forty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it on account of the forty.” 30 Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose thirty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” 31 And he said, “Now behold, I have [y]ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty.” 32 Then he said, “(AC)Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once: suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.” 33 As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham (AD)the Lord departed, and Abraham returned to his place.
The Doom of Sodom
19 Now the (AE)two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When (AF)Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and [z]bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we shall spend the night in the public square.” 3 Yet he strongly urged them, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; (AG)and he prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Before they lay down, (AH)the men of the city—the men of Sodom—surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people [aa]from every quarter; 5 and they called to Lot and said to him, “(AI)Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may [ab]have relations with them.” 6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, 7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly. 8 Now look, (AJ)I have two daughters who have not [ac]had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them [ad]whatever you like; only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the [ae]shelter of my roof.” 9 But they said, “Get out of the way!” They also said, “This one came in [af]as a foreigner, and already (AK)he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them!” So they pressed hard against [ag]Lot and moved forward to break the door. 10 But (AL)the men reached out their [ah]hands and brought Lot into the house [ai]with them, and shut the door. 11 Then (AM)they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the small to the great, so that they became weary of trying to find the doorway.
12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law and your sons and daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place; 13 for we are about to destroy this place, because (AN)their outcry has become so great before the Lord that (AO)the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” 14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who [aj]were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, (AP)get out of this place, for the Lord is destroying the city.” (AQ)But he appeared to his sons-in-law [ak]to be joking.
15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the [al]punishment of the city.” 16 But he hesitated. So the men (AR)grasped his hand and the hand of his wife and the [am]hands of his two daughters, because (AS)the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city. 17 When they had brought them outside, [an]one said, “(AT)Escape for your life! (AU)Do not look behind you, and do not stay [ao]anywhere in the (AV)surrounding area; escape to (AW)the [ap]mountains, or you will be swept away.” 18 But Lot said to them, “Oh no, my lords! 19 Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your compassion, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the [aq]mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die; 20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) [ar]so that my life may be saved.” 21 And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this [as]request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the town was named [at](AX)Zoar.
23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the Lord (AY)rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven, 25 and (AZ)He overthrew those cities, and all the surrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But [au]Lot’s wife, from behind him, (BA)looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Now Abraham got up early in the morning and went to (BB)the place where he had stood before the Lord; 28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the surrounding area; and [av]behold, he saw (BC)the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a [aw]furnace.
29 So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that (BD)God remembered Abraham, and (BE)sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Lot and His Daughters
30 Now Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and (BF)stayed in the [ax]mountains, because he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man [ay]on earth to [az](BG)have relations with us according to the custom of all the earth. 32 Come, (BH)let’s make our father drink wine, and let’s sleep with him so that we may keep [ba]our family alive through our father.” 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or got up. 34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept last night with my father; let’s make him drink wine tonight too, then you go in and sleep with him, so that we may keep [bb]our family alive through our father.” 35 So they had their father drink wine that night too, and the younger got up and slept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or got up. 36 And so both of the daughters of Lot conceived by their father. 37 The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him (BI)Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 As for the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and named him Ben-ammi; he is the father of [bc]the sons of (BJ)Ammon to this day.
Abraham’s Treachery
20 Now Abraham journeyed from (BK)there toward the land of (BL)the [bd]Negev, and [be]settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived for a time in (BM)Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “(BN)She is my sister.” So (BO)Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah. 3 (BP)But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, (BQ)you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is [bf]married.” 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, “Lord, (BR)will You kill a nation, even though [bg]blameless? 5 Did he himself not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she (BS)herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In (BT)the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my [bh]hands I have done this.” 6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also [bi](BU)kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. 7 Now then, return the man’s wife, for (BV)he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”
8 So Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their [bj]presence; and the people were greatly frightened. 9 (BW)Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And [bk]how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom (BX)a great sin? You have done to me [bl]things that ought not to be done.” 10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What have you [bm]encountered, that you have done this thing?” 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no (BY)fear of God in this place, and (BZ)they will kill me because of my wife. 12 Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife; 13 and it came about, when (CA)God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is [bn]the kindness which you will show to me: [bo]everywhere we go, (CB)say of me, “He is my brother.”’” 14 (CC)Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him. 15 Abimelech said, “(CD)Behold, my land is before you; [bp]settle wherever [bq]you please.” 16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given your (CE)brother a thousand pieces of silver. [br]It is [bs]your vindication before all who are with you, and before everyone you are cleared.” 17 Then (CF)Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, so that they gave birth to children. 18 (CG)For the Lord had completely closed all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Isaac Is Born
21 (CH)Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had [bt]promised. 2 (CI)So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at (CJ)the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham named his son who was born to him, the son whom Sarah bore to him, (CK)Isaac. 4 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was (CL)eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Now Abraham was (CM)a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 Sarah said, “God has made (CN)laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh [bu]with me.” 7 And she said, “(CO)Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age.”
8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Sarah Turns against Hagar
9 Now Sarah saw (CP)the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, (CQ)mocking Isaac. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “(CR)Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be an heir with my son [bv]Isaac!” 11 (CS)The matter [bw]distressed Abraham greatly because of his son Ishmael. 12 But God said to Abraham, “[bx]Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for (CT)through Isaac [by]your descendants shall be named. 13 And of (CU)the son of the slave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your [bz]descendant.” 14 So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a [ca]skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was used up, she [cb]left the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not [cc]see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and (CV)raised her voice and wept. 17 God (CW)heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “[cd]What is the matter with you, Hagar? (CX)Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him by [ce]the hand, (CY)for I will make a great nation of him.” 19 Then God (CZ)opened her eyes, and she saw (DA)a well of water; and she went and filled the [cf]skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 And (DB)God was with the boy, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21 (DC)He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Covenant with Abimelech
22 Now it came about at that time that (DD)Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “(DE)God is with you in all that you do; 23 so now, (DF)swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my descendants, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have resided.” 24 Abraham said, “I swear it.” 25 But Abraham [cg]complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech (DG)had seized. 26 And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it [ch]until today.”
27 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and (DH)the two of them made a covenant. 28 But Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?” 30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a (DI)witness for me, that I dug this well.” 31 Therefore he called that place [ci](DJ)Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there (DK)he called on the name of the Lord, the (DL)Everlasting God. 34 And Abraham resided (DM)in the land of the Philistines for many days.
The Offering of Isaac
22 Now it came about after these things, that (DN)God tested Abraham, and said to him, “(DO)Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 Then He said, “Take now (DP)your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of (DQ)Moriah, and offer him there as a (DR)burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” 3 So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. 5 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.” 6 And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and (DS)laid it on his son Isaac, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. 7 Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the (DT)lamb for the burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will [cj]provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.
9 Then they came to (DU)the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built (DV)the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and (DW)laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 And Abraham reached out with his hand and took the knife to [ck]slaughter his son. 11 But (DX)the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now (DY)I know that you [cl]fear God, since you have not withheld (DZ)your son, your only son, from Me.” 13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in the place of his son. 14 And Abraham named that place [cm]The Lord Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “On the mountain of the Lord (EA)it will [cn]be provided.”
15 Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, 16 and said, “(EB)By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly (EC)multiply your [co]seed as the stars of the heavens and as (ED)the sand, which is on the seashore; and (EE)your [cp]seed shall possess the gate of [cq]their enemies. 18 And (EF)in your [cr]seed all the nations of the earth shall [cs]be blessed, because you have (EG)obeyed My voice.” 19 (EH)So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived in Beersheba.
20 Now it came about after these things, that Abraham was told, saying, “Behold, (EI)Milcah [ct]also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel”— 23 and it was Bethuel who fathered (EJ)Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, [cu]also gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Notas al pie
- Genesis 18:1 Lit him
- Genesis 18:1 Or terebinths
- Genesis 18:3 Or O Lord
- Genesis 18:3 Lit pass away from Your servant
- Genesis 18:4 I.e., referring to the three visitors
- Genesis 18:5 Lit take
- Genesis 18:5 Lit sustain your heart
- Genesis 18:5 Lit come to
- Genesis 18:6 Lit Hasten three measures
- Genesis 18:6 Heb seah; one seah is about 7 qt. or 7.7 liters
- Genesis 18:7 Lit good
- Genesis 18:8 Lit and
- Genesis 18:10 Lit when the time revives
- Genesis 18:11 Lit the way of women
- Genesis 18:12 Lit within
- Genesis 18:14 Or wonderful
- Genesis 18:14 Lit when the time revives
- Genesis 18:18 Or populous
- Genesis 18:19 Lit known
- Genesis 18:24 Or forgive
- Genesis 18:25 Lit like this thing
- Genesis 18:25 Lit do justice
- Genesis 18:26 Or forgive
- Genesis 18:27 Or resolved
- Genesis 18:31 Or resolved
- Genesis 19:1 Lit bowed himself
- Genesis 19:4 Or without exception; lit from every end
- Genesis 19:5 Lit know them; i.e., have intercourse
- Genesis 19:8 Lit known man
- Genesis 19:8 Lit as is good in your sight
- Genesis 19:8 Lit shadow
- Genesis 19:9 Lit to sojourn
- Genesis 19:9 Lit the man, against Lot
- Genesis 19:10 Lit hand
- Genesis 19:10 Lit to
- Genesis 19:14 Or had married; lit were taking
- Genesis 19:14 Lit like one who was joking
- Genesis 19:15 Or wrongdoing
- Genesis 19:16 Lit hand
- Genesis 19:17 Lit he
- Genesis 19:17 Lit in all the circle
- Genesis 19:17 Lit mountain
- Genesis 19:19 Lit mountain
- Genesis 19:20 Lit and my soul will live
- Genesis 19:21 Lit thing
- Genesis 19:22 I.e., small
- Genesis 19:26 Lit his
- Genesis 19:28 Lit he saw, and behold
- Genesis 19:28 Lit kiln
- Genesis 19:30 Lit mountain
- Genesis 19:31 Or in the land
- Genesis 19:31 Lit come in to
- Genesis 19:32 Lit seed from our father
- Genesis 19:34 Lit seed from our father
- Genesis 19:38 Heb Beney-Ammon
- Genesis 20:1 I.e., South country
- Genesis 20:1 Lit dwelt
- Genesis 20:3 Lit married to a husband
- Genesis 20:4 Lit righteous
- Genesis 20:5 Lit palms
- Genesis 20:6 Lit restrained
- Genesis 20:8 Lit ears
- Genesis 20:9 Lit what
- Genesis 20:9 Lit deeds
- Genesis 20:10 Lit seen
- Genesis 20:13 Lit your
- Genesis 20:13 Lit at every place where
- Genesis 20:15 Lit dwell
- Genesis 20:15 Lit it is good in your sight
- Genesis 20:16 Lit Behold, it is
- Genesis 20:16 Lit for you a covering of the eyes
- Genesis 21:1 Lit spoken
- Genesis 21:6 Lit for
- Genesis 21:10 Lit with Isaac
- Genesis 21:11 Lit was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
- Genesis 21:12 Lit Do not let it be grievous in your sight
- Genesis 21:12 Lit your seed will be called
- Genesis 21:13 Lit seed
- Genesis 21:14 I.e., a skin used as a bottle
- Genesis 21:15 Lit cast
- Genesis 21:16 Lit look at the death of the child
- Genesis 21:17 Lit What to you; an idiom
- Genesis 21:18 Lit your
- Genesis 21:19 See note v 14
- Genesis 21:25 Lit rebuked
- Genesis 21:26 Lit except
- Genesis 21:31 I.e., well of an oath
- Genesis 22:8 Lit see
- Genesis 22:10 I.e., following prescribed ritual
- Genesis 22:12 Or revere; lit are a fearer of God
- Genesis 22:14 Heb YHWH-jireh; lit the Lord will see
- Genesis 22:14 Lit be seen
- Genesis 22:17 Or descendants
- Genesis 22:17 Or descendants
- Genesis 22:17 Lit his
- Genesis 22:18 Or descendants
- Genesis 22:18 Or bless themselves
- Genesis 22:20 Lit she also
- Genesis 22:24 Lit she also
Genesis 18-22
New International Version
Genesis 18-22
New International Version
The Three Visitors
18 The Lord appeared to Abraham(A) near the great trees of Mamre(B) while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent(C) in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up(D) and saw three men(E) standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.(F)
3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes,(G) my lord,[a] do not pass your servant(H) by. 4 Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet(I) and rest under this tree. 5 Let me get you something to eat,(J) 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.”
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs[b] of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”(K)
7 Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf(L) and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. 8 He then brought some curds(M) and milk(N) and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them.(O) While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
9 “Where is your wife Sarah?”(P) they asked him.
“There, in the tent,(Q)” he said.
10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year,(R) and Sarah your wife will have a son.”(S)
Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old,(T) and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.(U) 12 So Sarah laughed(V) to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord(W) is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’(X) 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord?(Y) I will return to you at the appointed time next year,(Z) and Sarah will have a son.”(AA)
15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.”
But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Abraham Pleads for Sodom
16 When the men(AB) got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham(AC) what I am about to do?(AD) 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation,(AE) and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.[c] 19 For I have chosen him(AF), so that he will direct his children(AG) and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord(AH) by doing what is right and just,(AI) so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”(AJ)
20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom(AK) and Gomorrah is so great(AL) and their sin so grievous(AM) 21 that I will go down(AN) and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22 The men(AO) turned away and went toward Sodom,(AP) but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.[d](AQ) 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?(AR) 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[e] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?(AS) 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing(AT)—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous(AU) and the wicked alike.(AV) Far be it from you! Will not the Judge(AW) of all the earth do right?”(AX)
26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.(AY)”
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,(AZ) 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry,(BA) but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more.(BB) What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten,(BC) I will not destroy it.”
33 When the Lord had finished speaking(BD) with Abraham, he left,(BE) and Abraham returned home.(BF)
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
19 The two angels(BG) arrived at Sodom(BH) in the evening, and Lot(BI) was sitting in the gateway of the city.(BJ) When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.(BK) 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet(BL) and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”(BM)
3 But he insisted(BN) so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house.(BO) He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast,(BP) and they ate.(BQ) 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom(BR)—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”(BS)
6 Lot went outside to meet them(BT) and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”(BU)
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner,(BV) and now he wants to play the judge!(BW) We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men(BX) inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness(BY) so that they could not find the door.
12 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?(BZ) Get them out of here, 13 because we(CA) are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great(CB) that he has sent us to destroy it.”(CC)
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[f] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!(CD)” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.(CE)
15 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(CF) when the city is punished.(CG)”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters(CH) and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.(CI) 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!(CJ) Don’t look back,(CK) and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!(CL) Flee to the mountains(CM) or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[g] please! 19 Your[h] servant has found favor in your[i] eyes,(CN) and you[j] have shown great kindness(CO) to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains;(CP) this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 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.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request(CQ) too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[k](CR))
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar,(CS) the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur(CT) on Sodom and Gomorrah(CU)—from the Lord out of the heavens.(CV) 25 Thus he overthrew those cities(CW) and the entire plain,(CX) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.(CY) 26 But Lot’s wife looked back,(CZ) and she became a pillar of salt.(DA)
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.(DB) 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.(DC)
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,(DD) he remembered(DE) Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe(DF) that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.(DG)
Lot and His Daughters
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar(DH) and settled in the mountains,(DI) for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line(DJ) through our father.”(DK)
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.(DL)
34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”(DM) 35 So they got their father to drink wine(DN) that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.(DO)
36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.(DP) 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[l];(DQ) he is the father of the Moabites(DR) of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[m]; he is the father of the Ammonites[n](DS) of today.
Abraham and Abimelek(DT)
20 Now Abraham moved on from there(DU) into the region of the Negev(DV) and lived between Kadesh(DW) and Shur.(DX) For a while(DY) he stayed in Gerar,(DZ) 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.(EA)” Then Abimelek(EB) king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.(EC)
3 But God came to Abimelek(ED) in a dream(EE) one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead(EF) because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”(EG)
4 Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?(EH) 5 Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,(EI)’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience(EJ) and clean hands.(EK)”
6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept(EL) you from sinning against me.(EM) That is why I did not let you touch her. 7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,(EN) and he will pray for you(EO) and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”(EP)
8 Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid. 9 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.(EQ)” 10 And Abimelek asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
11 Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God(ER) in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’(ES) 12 Besides, she really is my sister,(ET) the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And when God had me wander(EU) from my father’s household,(EV) I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Then Abimelek(EW) brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham,(EX) and he returned Sarah his wife to him. 15 And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”(EY)
16 To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[o] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
17 Then Abraham prayed to God,(EZ) and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, 18 for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.(FA)
The Birth of Isaac
21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah(FB) as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.(FC) 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son(FD) to Abraham in his old age,(FE) at the very time God had promised him.(FF) 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[p](FG) to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him,(FH) as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old(FI) when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,(FJ) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 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.”(FK)
Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
8 The child grew and was weaned,(FL) and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham(FM) was mocking,(FN) 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman(FO) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”(FP)
11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.(FQ) 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[q] will be reckoned.(FR) 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation(FS) also, because he is your offspring.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.(FT) He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.(FU)
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[r] began to sob.(FV)
17 God heard the boy crying,(FW) and the angel of God(FX) called to Hagar from heaven(FY) and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid;(FZ) God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.(GA)”
19 Then God opened her eyes(GB) and she saw a well of water.(GC) So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy(GD) as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. 21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran,(GE) his mother got a wife for him(GF) from Egypt.
The Treaty at Beersheba
22 At that time Abimelek(GG) and Phicol the commander of his forces(GH) said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.(GI) 23 Now swear(GJ) to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.(GK) Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”(GL)
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.(GM) 26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.(GN) 28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, 29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness(GO) that I dug this well.(GP)”
31 So that place was called Beersheba,[s](GQ) because the two men swore an oath(GR) there.
32 After the treaty(GS) had been made at Beersheba,(GT) Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces(GU) returned to the land of the Philistines.(GV) 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree(GW) in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord,(GX) the Eternal God.(GY) 34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines(GZ) for a long time.
Abraham Tested
22 Some time later God tested(HA) Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,”(HB) he replied.
2 Then God said, “Take your son(HC), your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.(HD) Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering(HE) on a mountain I will show you.(HF)”
3 Early the next morning(HG) Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.(HH)”
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac,(HI) and he himself carried the fire and the knife.(HJ) As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb(HK) for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide(HL) the lamb(HM) for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9 When they reached the place God had told him about,(HN) Abraham built an altar(HO) there and arranged the wood(HP) on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar,(HQ) on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife(HR) to slay his son.(HS) 11 But the angel of the Lord(HT) called out to him from heaven,(HU) “Abraham! Abraham!”(HV)
“Here I am,”(HW) he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,(HX) because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.(HY)”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[t] caught by its horns.(HZ) He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.(IA) 14 So Abraham called(IB) that place The Lord(IC) Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.(ID)”
15 The angel of the Lord(IE) called to Abraham from heaven(IF) a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself,(IG) declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,(IH) 17 I will surely bless you(II) and make your descendants(IJ) as numerous as the stars in the sky(IK) and as the sand on the seashore.(IL) Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,(IM) 18 and through your offspring[u] all nations on earth will be blessed,[v](IN) because you have obeyed me.”(IO)
19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba.(IP) And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Nahor’s Sons
20 Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:(IQ) 21 Uz(IR) the firstborn, Buz(IS) his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.(IT)” 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.(IU) Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.(IV) 24 His concubine,(IW) whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.
Notas al pie
- Genesis 18:3 Or eyes, Lord
- Genesis 18:6 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
- Genesis 18:18 Or will use his name in blessings (see 48:20)
- Genesis 18:22 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition but the Lord remained standing before Abraham
- Genesis 18:24 Or forgive; also in verse 26
- Genesis 19:14 Or were married to
- Genesis 19:18 Or No, Lord; or No, my lord
- Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
- Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
- Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
- Genesis 19:22 Zoar means small.
- Genesis 19:37 Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father.
- Genesis 19:38 Ben-Ammi means son of my father’s people.
- Genesis 19:38 Hebrew Bene-Ammon
- Genesis 20:16 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms
- Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs.
- Genesis 21:12 Or seed
- Genesis 21:16 Hebrew; Septuagint the child
- Genesis 21:31 Beersheba can mean well of seven and well of the oath.
- Genesis 22:13 Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text a ram behind him
- Genesis 22:18 Or seed
- Genesis 22:18 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)
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