Genesis 19
1 The two angels came to
Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw
them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 He said, "Please, my
lords, turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your
feet; then you can rise early and go on your way." They said, "No; we
will spend the night in the square."
3 But he urged 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.
4 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;
5 and they called to Lot,
"Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that
we may know them."
6 Lot went out of the door
to the men, shut the door after him,
7 and said, "I beg you,
my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
8 Look, I have two daughters
who have not known a 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."
9 But they replied,
"Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien,
and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with
them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near the door
to break it down.
10 But the men inside
reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the
door.
11 And they struck with
blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so
that they were unable to find the door.
12 Then the men said to Lot,
"Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you
have in the city—bring them out of the place.
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."
14 So Lot went out and said
to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "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.
15 When morning dawned, the
angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters
who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the
city."
16 But he lingered; so the
men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being
merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city.
17 When they had brought
them outside, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop
anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be
consumed."
18 And Lot said to them,
"Oh, no, my lords;
19 your servant has found
favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot
flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.
20 Look, that 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!"
21 He said to him,
"Very well, I grant you this favour too, and will not overthrow the city
of which you have spoken.
22 Hurry, escape there, for
I can do nothing until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called
Zoar.
23 The sun had risen on the
earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained on
Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur 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 what grew
on the ground.
26 But Lot's wife, behind
him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham went early in the
morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord;
28 and he looked down toward
Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of
the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.
29So it was that, when God
destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of
the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had
settled.
30 Now Lot went up out of
Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay
in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
31 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 world.
32 Come, let us make our
father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring
through our father."
33 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 rose.
34 On the next day, the
firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I lay last night with my father; let
us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that
we may preserve offspring through our father."
35 So they made their father
drink wine that night also; and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did
not know when she lay down or when she rose.
36 Thus both the daughters
of Lot became pregnant by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son,
and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.
38 The younger also bore a
son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.
Genesis 20
1 From there Abraham
journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur.
While residing in Gerar as an alien,
2 Abraham said of his wife
Sarah, "She is my sister." And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took
Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech
in a dream by night, and said to him, "You are about to die because of the
woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman."
4 Now Abimelech had not
approached her; so he said, "Lord, will you destroy an innocent
people?
5 Did he not himself say to
me, "She is my sister'? And she herself said, "He is my brother.' I
did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my
hands."
6 Then God said to him in
the dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart;
furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not
let you touch her.
7 Now then, return the man's
wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if
you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are
yours."
8 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.
9 Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned
against you, that you have brought such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You
have done things to me that ought not to be done."
10 And Abimelech said to
Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"
11 Abraham said, "I did
it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they
will kill me because of my wife.
12 Besides, she is indeed my
sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she
became my wife.
13 And when 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, say of me, He is my brother.'
"
14 Then Abimelech took sheep
and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored
his wife Sarah to him.
15 Abimelech said, "My
land is before you; settle where it pleases you."
16To Sarah he said, "Look, I
have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your exoneration
before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated."
17 Then Abraham prayed to
God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so
that they bore children.
18 For the Lord had closed
fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 21
1 The Lord dealt with Sarah
as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.
2 Sarah conceived and bore
Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.
3 Abraham gave the name
Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.
4 And Abraham circumcised
his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 Abraham was a hundred
years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Now Sarah said, "God
has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
7And she said, "Who would
ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him
a son in his old age."
8 The child grew, and was
weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
9 But Sarah saw the son of
Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son
Isaac.
10 So she said to Abraham,
"Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman
shall not inherit along with my son Isaac."
11 The matter was very
distressing to Abraham on account of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham,
"Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman;
whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that
offspring shall be named for you.
13 As for the son of the
slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your
offspring."
14 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 about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
15 When the water in the
skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.
16 Then she went and sat
down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she
said, "Do not let me look on the death of the child." And as she sat
opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
17 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? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice
of the boy where he is.
18 Come, lift up the boy and
hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of
him."
19 Then God opened her eyes
and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave
the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy, and
he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the
bow.
21 He lived in the
wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of
Egypt.
22 At that time Abimelech,
with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you
in all that you do;
23 now therefore swear to me
here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with
my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and
with the land where you have resided as an alien."
24 And Abraham said, "I
swear it."
25 When Abraham complained
to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,
26 Abimelech said, "I
do not know who has done this; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it
until today."
27 So Abraham took sheep and
oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
28 Abraham set apart seven
ewe lambs of the flock.
29 And Abimelech said to
Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set
apart?"
30 He said, "These
seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand, in order that you may be a
witness for me that I dug this well."
31 Therefore that place was
called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.
32 When they had made a
covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, left
and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 Abraham planted a
tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the
Everlasting God.
34 And Abraham resided as an
alien many days in the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 22
1 After these things God
tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I
am."
2 He said, "Take your
son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and
offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show
you."
3 So Abraham rose early in
the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and
his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to
the place in the distance that God had shown him.
4 On the third day Abraham
looked up and saw the place far away.
5 Then Abraham said to his young
men, "Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will
worship, and then we will come back to you."
6 Abraham took the wood of
the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the
fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
7 Isaac said to his father
Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He
said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?"
8 Abraham said, "God
himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of
them walked on together.
9 When they came to the
place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in
order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the
wood.
10 Then Abraham reached out
his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord
called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said,
"Here I am."
12 He said, "Do not lay
your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God,
since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
13 And Abraham looked up and
saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and
offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham called that
place "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On
the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
15 The angel of the Lord
called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
16 and said, "By myself
I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld
your son, your only son,
17 I will indeed bless you,
and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the
sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of
their enemies,
18 and by your offspring
shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you
have obeyed my voice."
19 So Abraham returned to
his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham
lived at Beer-sheba.
20 Now after these things it
was told Abraham, "Milcah also has borne children, to your brother
Nahor:
21 Uz the firstborn, Buz his
brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash,
Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
23 Bethuel became the father
of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 Moreover, his concubine,
whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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