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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram [was] Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor [was] Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Verse ConceptsNamed WivesFathers And Daughters

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, {his grandson}, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to Haran, and they settled there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGrandchildrenAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving In The LandLand Promised To Israel

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot {his nephew}, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsAbraham

And it happened [that] as he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful of appearance,

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In WomenWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureTrust In RelationshipsThe Beauty Of NatureBeing Beautifulsarah

Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it [was] well-watered land--[this was] before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt {in the direction of} Zoar.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureYielding To TemptationDestruction Of Cities

made war with Bera, the king of Sodom, and Birsha, the king of Gomorrah, Shinab, the king of Admah, and Shemeber, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that [is], Zoar).

And the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is at the wilderness.

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 took up battle position} in the Valley of Siddim

Verse ConceptsValleys

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGod's Mercy, Example OfNamed WivesWifeHaving A Babyservanthoodbabysarahmistress

And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps {I will have children by her}." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm [be] upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you}, and [when] she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}. May Yahweh judge between me and you!"

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeCriticism, against believersAbraham, Testing And VictoryPeople Possibly Doing Evil

And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant [is] {under your authority}. Do to her that which [is] good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfMastersOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Causes OfEmployers, Bad ExamplesGiven Into One's HandsLeaving People Alonemistress

And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "{From where} have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress."

Verse ConceptsWhere From?Where To?mistress

And God said to Abraham, "[as for] Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [shall be] her name.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryAbraham, Calling And LifeChanged NamesGod Renaming Peoplesarah

And God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year."

Verse ConceptsGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Time AppointedAbrahamic Covenantcovenantsarah

Then Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, "Quickly--make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!"

Verse ConceptsFoodBakersBakingWeights And Measures, DryHasty ActionKneading DoughThree Other ThingsHurrying Others OnOther Volume Measures

And they said to him, "Where [is] Sarah your wife?" And he said, "Here, in the tent."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?sarah

And he said, "I will certainly return to you {in the spring}, and look, Sarah your wife [will have] a son." Now Sarah [was] listening at the doorway of the tent, and which [was] behind him.

Verse ConceptsListeningSanctity Of LifeConceptionBirths ForetoldThe Promise Of A Babysarah

So Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall [this] pleasure be to me?"

Verse ConceptsHumourPeople Wearing OutSoliloquyThe Promise Of A BabysexHaving A Babysarah

Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What [is] this [that] Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true [that] I will bear a child, now [that] I have grown old?'

Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?The Promise Of A Babysarah

But Sarah denied [it], saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

Verse ConceptsLiesLying, Examples OfContradictingThose Frightened Of Godsarahdenial

Escape there quickly, for I cannot do [this] thing until you get there." Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

[After] the sun {had risen} upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar,

Verse ConceptsDaybreakDestinationsAt Daybreak

And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Verse ConceptsCavesFear, Of NaturalEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesSetting OutTwo WomenCaves As Places Of Refuge

And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She [is] my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersMisrepresentationTaking Other PeopleSiblingsRelationship TroublesSportssarahrejuvenation

And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave [them] to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.

Verse ConceptsSheepOwning LivestockReinstating PeopleGroups Of SlavesPeople Giving Other ThingsPossessing Sheepsarah

And to Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand [pieces of] silver to your brother. It [shall be] {an exoneration}. {You are vindicated before all who are with you}."

Verse ConceptsCoveringSilverA Thousand ThingsMan VindicatesSpecific Sums Of MoneyPeople Giving Other Things

For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenWombReasons For BarrennessSealing ThingsInfertilitysarah

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenAbraham, Testing And Victorysarah

And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Peoplesarah

And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me."

Verse ConceptsGesturesHappinessLaughterGodly AncestryThe Promise Of A Babysarah

And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham [that] Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son [to Abraham] in his old age."

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesAbraham, Testing And VictorySeeing PeopleSportsFunsarahmistress

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

So now, swear to me here by God [that] you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall [pledge] to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien."

Verse ConceptsKindnessNegotiationPolitical Alliances, By OathsSojourningFalse WaysPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantWellsPeople Naming Things

And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,

Verse ConceptsAbrahamChild sacrificeOaths, DivineThe Only ChildOnly Child Of PeopleGod HimselfNot SparingSwearingmyself

And {Sarah lived} one hundred and twenty-seven years; [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Abraham, Testing And VictoryAge At DeathDeath Of Loved OneDeath Of A Mothersarah

And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsGriefLossSorrowWeepingMourning The Death Of OthersDeath

And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites [and] said,

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of Other PeoplePeople Getting Up

And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan

Verse ConceptsTombsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying placessarah

that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGod, Sovereignty OfHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansWives, Duties OfIntermarriageSwearing

Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'to your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamLand, As A Divine GiftOaths, DivineServants, GoodAngels, Ministry To BelieversAngels Going At God's BiddingBringing People Out Of Other PlacesTaking A Wife

Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter.

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodThighsSwearing Oaths

And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersHope For Old People

And my master made me swear, saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living.

Verse ConceptsIntermarriage

And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after [the death of] his mother.

Verse ConceptsHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfTentsGod's Mercy, Example OfComfort, Of FriendsCourtingMen And Women Who LovedMothers Deathmomslosing a loved oneDeath Of A MotherLoss Of A Loved One

the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.

Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham.

Verse Conceptssarah

Then Jacob said, "Swear to me {first}." And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanYielding To Temptation

Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamOaths, DivineSojourningGod Swearing BlessingsGod Will Be With YouGod Will Blessland

And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other, and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod Is To Be Feared

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutMessenger

Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir."

Verse ConceptsSlownessPeople Going Before

So Esau dwelled in the hill country of Seir (Esau, that [is] Edom).

Now these [are] the descendants of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.

Now these [are] the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These [are] the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

Now these [are] the sons Reuel, the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These [are] the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These [are] the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

These [are] the sons of Seir, the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These [are] the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These [are] the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah from Bozrah, reigned in his place.

Verse ConceptsForeign KingsRulers Of Edom

And afterward his brother who [had] the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah.

Verse ConceptsCordsRed Cords

But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. [If] harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol."

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolAfflicted To DeathGrey

it shall happen [that] when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelNamed Sisters

Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanStaffBeds

As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died {to my sorrow} in the land of Canaan on the way when [there was] still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that [is], Bethlehem)."

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfUnhappiness

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah--

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of Machpelahsarah

'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I [am about] to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan--there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'"

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

Then Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father as he made you swear."

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I [am about] to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

Verse ConceptsBonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The WorldExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths