Genesis 18 - 23
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And the Lord appeared to him by the o oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
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He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. p When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth
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and said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
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Let a q little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,
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while I bring a morsel of bread, that r you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - s since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."
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And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes."
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And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.
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Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
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They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is t in the tent."
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The Lord said, "I will surely return to you u about this time next year, and v Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Now w Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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x So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, y "After I am worn out, and z my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?"
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The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
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a Is anything too hard for the Lord? b At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."
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But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
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Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
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The Lord said, c "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
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seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be d blessed in him?
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For I have e chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
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Then the Lord said, "Because f the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
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g I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, h I will know."
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i So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham j still stood before the Lord.
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Then Abraham drew near and said, k "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
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Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, l so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! m Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
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And the Lord said, n "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
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Abraham answered and said, o "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
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Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
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Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
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He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
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Then he said, p "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
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And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19
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The q two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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and said, "My lords, r please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night s and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, t "No; we will spend the night in the town square."
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But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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u And they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? v Bring them out to us, that we w may know them."
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Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,
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and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
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x Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
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But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow y came to sojourn, and z he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
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But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
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And they struck with a blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.
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Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, b bring them out of the place.
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For we are about to destroy this place, c because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it."
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So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, d "Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
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As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city."
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But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, e the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
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And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. f Do not look back or stop anywhere in the g valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."
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And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords.
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Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there - is it not a little one? - and my life will be saved!"
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He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called h Zoar.
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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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Then i the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
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But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became j a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had k stood before the Lord.
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And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
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So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God l remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
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Now Lot went up out of Zoar and m lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."
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So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."
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So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
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The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. n He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. o He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Genesis 20
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From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between p Kadesh and Shur; and he q sojourned in r Gerar.
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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, s "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
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t But God came to Abimelech u in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
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Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, v "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
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Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
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Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning w against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
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Now then, return the man's wife, x for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you y and all who are yours."
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So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid.
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Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
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And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?"
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Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, z There is no fear of God at all in this place, and a they will kill me because of my wife.
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Besides, b she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
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And when c God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, d say of me, He is my brother.'"
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Then Abimelech e took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
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And Abimelech said, "Behold, f my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."
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To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given g your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is h a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated."
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Then i Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
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For the Lord j had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 21
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The Lord k visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah l as he had promised.
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And Sarah m conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age n at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, o Isaac.
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And Abraham p circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, q as God had commanded him.
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r Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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And Sarah said, s "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."
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And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? t Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
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And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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But Sarah u saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, v laughing.
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So she said to Abraham, w "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
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And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
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But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for x through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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And I will make y a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of z Beersheba.
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.
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Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
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And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
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Then a God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness b and became an expert with the bow.
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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At that time c Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, d "God is with you in all that you do.
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Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but e as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
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And Abraham said, "I will swear."
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When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants f had seized,
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Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men g made a covenant.
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Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
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And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
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He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
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Therefore h that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and i called there on the name of the Lord, j the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 22
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After these things k God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to l the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
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Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and m laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
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And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
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Abraham said, n "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and o laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, p "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for q now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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So Abraham called the name of that place, r "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
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And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
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and said, s "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring t as the stars of heaven and u as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess v the gate of his enemies,
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and w in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, x because you have obeyed my voice."
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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to y Beersheba. And Abraham lived at y Beersheba.
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Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, z Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
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a Uz his firstborn, b Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
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( c Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23
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Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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And Sarah died at d Kiriath-arba (that is, e Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
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f "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; g give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
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The Hittites answered Abraham,
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"Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
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Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
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And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."
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Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who h went in at the gate of his city,
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"No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
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Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
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And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
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Ephron answered Abraham,
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"My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred i shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
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Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham j weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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So k the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
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to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
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After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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The field and the cave that is in it l were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Genesis 19:2
And said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square.
Genesis 24:32
So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 43:24
And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder.
Luke 7:44
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
John 13:14
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
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Judges 19:5
And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.
Psalms 104:15
And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
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Genesis 19:8
Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
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Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
2 Kings 4:16
And he said, "At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Romans 9:9
For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Hebrews 11:11 - 12
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Luke 1:18
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
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1 Peter 3:6
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
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Job 42:2
I know that you can do all things, and that no ...
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heave...
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is...
Zechariah 8:6
Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous...
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man th...
Luke 1:37
For nothing will be impossible with God.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 22:18
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
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Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Genesis 19:13
For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Ezekiel 16:49 - 50
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
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Genesis 18:16
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said he would destroy them - had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
2 Samuel 24:17
Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house.
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Job 8:20
Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:10
Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Romans 3:5 - 6
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the Lord : "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
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Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
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Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Judges 4:18
And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Luke 24:28
So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther.
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Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:27
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Jude 1:7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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Judges 19:24
Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Exodus 2:14
He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known.
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2 Kings 6:18
And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Acts 13:11
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
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2 Peter 2:7
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
Revelation 18:4 - 5
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.
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Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
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Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.
Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord 's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
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Psalms 34:22
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
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Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Matthew 24:16 - 18
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and sa...
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be like the cities that the Lord o...
Jeremiah 50:40
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and th...
Lamentations 4:6
For the chastisement of the daughter of my peop...
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew ...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hos...
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fi...
2 Peter 2:6
If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ...
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Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
Genesis 19:19
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.
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Deuteronomy 2:19
And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.
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Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
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Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
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Genesis 26:6
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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Genesis 12:13 - 20
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
Genesis 26:7 - 11
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
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Psalms 105:14
He allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account.
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Job 33:15 - 16
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
Matthew 1:20
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 2:12
And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
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Genesis 18:23
Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.
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Genesis 39:9
He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?
Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
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1 Samuel 7:5
Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
Job 42:8
Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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Numbers 16:32 - 33
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
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Proverbs 16:6
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
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Genesis 12:12
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
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Genesis 12:13
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
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Genesis 12:16
And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
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Genesis 20:5
Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.
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Genesis 24:65
And said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.
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James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
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Genesis 12:17
But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
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1 Samuel 2:21
Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.
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Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12
He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.
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Genesis 18:11 - 12
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
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Galatians 4:30
But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
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Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Hebrews 11:18
Of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.
2 Kings 6:17 - 18
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:20
As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the Lord opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:31
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
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Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
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Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Genesis 26:26
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
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Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you.
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Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
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Genesis 26:15
(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
Genesis 26:18
And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
Genesis 26:20 - 22
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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Genesis 26:31
In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
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Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 1:12 - 13
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 1:6 - 7
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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John 19:17
And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
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John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36
And he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Revelation 5:12
Saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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Micah 6:7 - 8
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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Psalms 105:9
The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac.
Luke 1:73
The oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself.
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Jeremiah 33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!
Psalms 127:5
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
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Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
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Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalms 105:12
When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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Acts 7:5
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying.
Genesis 34:24
And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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1 Chronicles 21:25
So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
Jeremiah 32:9
And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
Zechariah 11:12
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:29 - 32
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Ruth 4:7 - 10
Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
Jeremiah 32:10 - 14
I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.
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