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And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
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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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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
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The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
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The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
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I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
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Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
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This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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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.”
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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.”
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Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
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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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because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
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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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Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
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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.
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
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But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
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Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
