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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
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So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
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So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
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After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
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I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”
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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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And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
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So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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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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so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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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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And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
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She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
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The Covenant of Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
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Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
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“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
