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.
2 I will make of you a great
nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who
bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed."
4 So Abram went, as the Lord
had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed
from Haran.
5 Abram took his wife Sarai
and his brother's son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and
the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the
land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the
land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites
were in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he
built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he moved on 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
invoked the name of the Lord.
9 And Abram journeyed on by
stages toward the Negeb.
10 Now there was a famine in
the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the
famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to
enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know well that you are a woman
beautiful in appearance;
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.
13 Say you are my sister, so
that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on
your account."
14 When Abram entered Egypt
the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 When the officials of
Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into
Pharaoh's house.
16 And for her sake he dealt
well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves,
female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord afflicted
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18So Pharaoh called Abram, and
said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she
was your wife?
19 Why did you say,
"She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your
wife, take her, and be gone."
20 And Pharaoh gave his men
orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that
he had.
Genesis 13
1 So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the Negeb.
2 Now Abram was very rich in
livestock, in silver, and in gold.
3 He journeyed on by stages
from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4 to the place where he had
made an altar at the first; and there Abram called on the name of the
Lord.
5 Now Lot, who went with
Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
6 so that the land could not
support both of them living together; for their possessions were so great that
they could not live together,
7 and there was strife
between the herders of Abram's livestock and the herders of Lot's livestock. At
that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.
8 Then Abram said to Lot,
"Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herders and
my herders; for we are kindred.
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."
10 Lot looked about him, and
saw that the plain of the Jordan 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 had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
11 So Lot chose for himself
all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; thus they separated
from each other.
12 Abram settled in the land
of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the Plain and moved his tent
as far as Sodom.
13 Now the people of Sodom
were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
14 The Lord said to Abram,
after Lot had separated from him, "Raise your eyes now, and look from the
place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
15 for all the land that you
see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
16 I will make your
offspring like the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the
earth, your offspring also can be counted.
17 Rise up, walk through the
length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
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
1 In the days of King
Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King
Tidal of Goiim,
2 these kings made war with
King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King
Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
3 All these joined forces in
the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).
4 Twelve years they had
served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
5 In the fourteenth year
Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in
Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
6 and the Horites in the
hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the edge of the wilderness;
7 then they turned back and
came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
8 Then the king of Sodom,
the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of
Siddim
9 with King Chedorlaomer of
Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar,
four kings against five.
10 Now the Valley of Siddim
was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some
fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.
11 So the enemy took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way;
12 they also took Lot, the
son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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.
14 When Abram heard that his
nephew had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house,
three hundred eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
15He divided his forces against
them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah,
north of Damascus.
16 Then he brought back all
the goods, and also brought back his nephew Lot with his goods, and the women
and the people.
17 After his return from the
defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went
out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
18 And King Melchizedek of
Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.
19 He blessed him and said,
"Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth;
20 and blessed be God Most
High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him
one-tenth of everything.
21 Then the king of Sodom
said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for
yourself."
22 But Abram said to the
king of Sodom, "I have sworn to the Lord, God Most High, maker of heaven
and earth,
23 that I would not take a
thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, so that you might not say,
"I have made Abram rich.'
24 I will take nothing but
what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me—Aner,
Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their share."
Genesis 15
1 After these things the
word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am
your shield; your reward shall be very great."
2 But Abram said, "O
Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my
house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
3 And Abram said, "You
have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my
heir."
4 But the word of the Lord
came to him, "This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own
issue shall be your heir."
5 He brought him outside and
said, "Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count
them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants
be."
6 And he believed the Lord;
and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7 Then he said to him,
"I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this
land to possess."
8 But he said, "O Lord
God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
9 He said to him,
"Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram
three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
10 He brought him all these
and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other; but he did not
cut the birds in two.
11 And when birds of prey
came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness
descended upon him.
13 Then the Lord said to
Abram, "Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a
land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed
for four hundred years;
14 but I will bring judgment
on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great
possessions.
15 As for yourself, you
shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old
age.
16 And they shall come back
here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet
complete."
17 When the sun had gone down and
it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these
pieces.
18 On that day the Lord made
a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from
the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
19 the land of the Kenites,
the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the
Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites,
the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
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