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Chapter 16 The Birth of Ishmael
1 Now Sarai Abram's
wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was
Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto
Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in
unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's
wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the
land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto
Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress
was despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto
Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she
saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
me and thee.
6 But Abram said unto
Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when
Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the
LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar,
Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I
flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of
the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not
be numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and
shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild
man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and
he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13 And she called the
name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I
also here looked after him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well
was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare
Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16 And Abram was
fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Chapter 17 The Circumcision of Abraham
1 And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty
God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant
between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and
God talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is
with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
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7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou
shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations.
10 This is my covenant,
which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man
child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh
of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old
shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy
seed.
13 He that is born in thy
house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised
man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be
cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
15 And God said unto
Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah
shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her,
and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a
mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face,
and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an
hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee!
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife
shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed
after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard
thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great
nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
22 And he left off talking with him,
and God went up from Abraham.
23 And Abraham took
Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought
with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised
the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
24 And Abraham was ninety years old
and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen
years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
26 In the selfsame day was Abraham
circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27 And all the men of his house,
born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with
him.
Chapter 18 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
1 And the LORD appeared unto him in
the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and
looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet
them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
3 And said, My LORD, if now I have
found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
4 Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
5 And I will fetch a morsel of
bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore
are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent
unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it,
and make cakes upon the hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and
fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and
the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them
under the tree, and they did eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where is
Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
10 And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old
and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of
women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also?
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am
old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the
LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of
life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied,
saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst
laugh.
16 And the men rose up
from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them
on the way.
17 And the LORD said,
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham
shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
shall be blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will
command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way
of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham
that which he hath spoken of him.
20 And the LORD said,
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very
grievous;
21 I will go down now, and
see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
unto me; and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned
their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before
the LORD.
23 And Abraham drew near, and said,
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
24 Peradventure there be fifty
righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for
the fifty righteous that are therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after
this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right?
26 And the LORD said, If I
find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place
for their sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and
ashes:
28 Peradventure there
shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack
of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
29 And he spake unto him yet again,
and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not
the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found
there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's
sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD
be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's
sake.
33 And the LORD went his way, as
soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his
place.
Chapter 19 God destroyed the Sodom and Gomorrah by rained
down burning sulfur
1 And there came two
angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them
rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold
now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all
night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And
they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon
them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he
made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4 But before they lay
down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,
both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5 And they called unto
Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?
bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out at
the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray
you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have
two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto
you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing;
for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand
back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will
needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they
pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men put
forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the
men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so
that they wearied themselves to find the door.
12 And the men said
unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy
daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
13 For we will destroy
this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD;
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and
spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you
out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one
that mocked unto his sons in law.
15 And when the morning
arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered,
the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the
hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought
him forth, and set him without the city.
17 And it came to
pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape
for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape
to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto
them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
19 Behold now, thy
servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which
thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the
mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this
city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither,
(is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto
him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not
overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape
thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name
of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen
upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained
upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that
which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham gat up
early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
28 And he looked
toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld,
and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to
pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham,
and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in
the which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out
of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he
feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn
said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth
to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make
our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father.
33 And they made their
father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her
father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass
on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay
yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go
thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their
father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and
he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born
bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites
unto this day.
38 And the younger,
she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the
children of Ammon unto this day.
Chapter 20 Abraham and Abimelech
1 And Abraham journeyed from thence 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: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took
Sarah.
3 But God came to
Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead
man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had
not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
5 Said he not unto me,
She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the
integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
6 And God said unto
him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart;
for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not
to touch her.
7 Now therefore
restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and
thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely
die, thou, and all that are thine.
8 Therefore Abimelech
rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these
things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
9 Then Abimelech
called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I
offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou
hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
10 And Abimelech said
unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
11 And Abraham said,
Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will
slay me for my wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed she
is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my
mother; and she became my wife.
13 And it came to
pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto
her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither
we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
14 And Abimelech took
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto
Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
15 And Abimelech said,
Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
16 And unto Sarah he
said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he
is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all
other: thus she was reproved.
17 So Abraham prayed
unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and
they bare children.
18 For the LORD had
fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah
Abraham's wife.
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