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19 And in the evening, two angels came to Sodom. And Lot sat at the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.
2 And he said, “See my lords, please turn in now into your servant’s house and stay the night and wash your feet. And you shall rise up early and go your ways.” They said, “No; but we will spend the night in the street.”
3 Then he pressed upon them earnestly; and they turned in to him and came to his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread. And they ate.
4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city (the men of Sodom, from the young even to the old, all the people from all quarters) surrounded the house.
5 And crying to Lot, they said to him, “Where are the men who came to you this night!? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them!”
6 Then Lot went out to them at the door, and shut the door after him,
7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not behave so wickedly.
8 “Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man. I will bring them out to you now; and do to them as seems good. Only, do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 Then they said, “Get out of here!” And they said, “He has come alone, as a stranger; and shall he judge and rule? We will now deal worse with you than with them!” So, they pressed hard upon Lot himself, and came to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door.
11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they were weary in seeking the door.
12 Then the men said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Either son-in-law, or your sons or your daughters, or whatever you have in the city, bring it out of this place.
13 “For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, “Arise! Get out of this place. For the LORD will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law as though he were joking.
15 And when the morning arose, the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Arise! Take your wife and your two daughters which are here, lest you be destroyed in the punishment of the city.”
16 And as he hesitated, the men caught both him and his wife and his two daughters by the hands (the LORD being merciful to him); and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
17 And when they had brought them out, the angel said, “Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape into the mountain, lest you be destroyed.”
18 And Lot said to them, “Please, no, my Lord!
19 “Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight; and you have magnified your mercy; which you have shown to me in saving my life. But I cannot escape into the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die.
20 “See, now, this city nearby to flee to, which is a little one. Oh, let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live!”
21 Then he said to him, “Behold, I have received your request concerning this thing also: that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.
22 “Hurry! Escape there. For I can do nothing till you get there.” Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The Sun rose upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah (from the LORD out of Heaven)
25 and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the Earth.
26 Now his wife behind him looked back; and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham, rising up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 And, looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, behold, he saw the smoke of the land mounting up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And yet, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God thought upon Abraham. And He sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities wherein Lot dwelled.
30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain with his two daughters; for he was afraid to remain in Zoar, but dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the elder said to the younger, “Our father is old; and there is not a man on the Earth to come into us after the manner of all the Earth.
32 “Come, we will make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.”
33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the elder went and lay with her father. But he did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
34 And the next day, the elder said to the younger, “Behold, last night I lay with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and you go and lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.”
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. But he did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the elder bore a son. And she called his name, Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 And the younger bore a son also. And she called his name, Ben-Ammi. The same is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
20 Afterward, Abraham departed from there toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech, King of Gerar, sent for and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are indeed dead, because of the woman which you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
4 Notwithstanding, Abimelech had not yet come near her. And he said, “Lord, will you kill even the righteous nation?
5 “Did not he say to me, ‘She is my sister?’ Yes, and she herself said, ‘He is my brother’. With an upright mind, and innocent hands I have done this.”
6 And God said to him by a dream, “Indeed, I know that you did this with an upright mind. And I also restrained you, so that you should not sin against Me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.
7 “Now then, restore the man’s wife to him. For he is a Prophet; and he shall pray for you, so that you may live. But if you do not restore her, be sure that you shall die the death, you and all that you have.”
8 Then Abimelech, rising up early in the morning, called all his servants and told all these things to them; and the men were very afraid.
9 Afterward, Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I offended you, that you have brought this great sin on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.”
10 So Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
11 Then Abraham answered, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
12 “Yet in truth she is my sister. For she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she is my wife.
13 “Now when God caused me to wander out of my father’s house, I said then to her, ‘This is your kindness that you shall show to me in all places where we come: Say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and men servants, and women servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
15 And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
16 Likewise to Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is the veil of your eyes to all that are with you, and to all others.” And she was thus rebuked.
17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his women servants. And they bore children.
18 For the LORD had shut up every womb of the House of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21 Now the LORD visited Sarah, as he had said, and did to her according to His promise.
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the same season that God told him.
3 And Abraham called his son’s name who was born to him, Isaac (which Sarah bore him).
4 Then Abraham circumcised Isaac, his son, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 So Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me rejoice! All who hear will rejoice with me!”
7 Again she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 Then the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.
10 Therefore, she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son! For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11 And this thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight, because of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the child, or because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah shall say to you, hear her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.
13 As for the son of the bondwoman, I will make him a nation also; because he is your seed.
14 So Abraham arose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her and the child away. They departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And when the water of the bottle was spent, she cast the child under a certain tree.
16 Then she went and sat opposite him at a distance of about a bow shoot. For she said, “I will not see the death of the child.” And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.
17 Then God heard the voice of the child. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from Heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear. For God has heard the voice of the child where he is.
18 “Arise, take up the child and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great people.”
19 And God opened her eyes; and she saw a well of water. So, she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the boy drink.
20 So God was with the child. And he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and was an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22 And at the same time, Abimelech and Phichol, his chief captain, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23 “Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not hurt me, nor my children, nor my children’s children. You shall deal with me, and with the country where you have been a stranger, according to the kindness that I have showed you.
24 Then Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing. Also, you didn’t tell me, nor had I heard of it, until today.
27 Then Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set apart seven lambs of the flock.
29 Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven lambs mean which you have set apart?
30 And he answered, “Because you shall receive these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I have dug this well.”
31 Therefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swore.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Afterward, Abimelech and Phichol, the chief captain, rose up and turned again to the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there called on the Name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistines’ land a long season.
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