And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

And he said, I will certainly return to thee when the season comes round, and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

And LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I who am old certainly bear a child?

Is anything too hard for LORD? At the set time I will return to thee, when the season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou did laugh.

And LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do,

And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?

And LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five.

And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

And the two [heavenly] agents came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth,

and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all n

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

And he said, I pray you, my brothers, do not so wickedly.

And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will be a judge. Now we will deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed greatly upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the doo

And the men said to Lot, Have thou here any besides? Son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomever thou have in the city, bring them out of the place.

And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place, for LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as a man jesting.

But he lingered. And the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, do not look behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my lord.

Behold now, thy servant has found favor in thy sight, and thou have magnified thy loving kindness, which thou have shown to me in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

And he said to him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou have spoken.

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in, and lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our fath

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

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou are but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou have taken, for she is a man's wife.

Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, LORD, will thou slay even a righteous nation?

Did he not himself say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.

And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou have done this. And I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow thee to touch her.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did thou see, that thou have done this thing?

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is thy kindness which thou shall show to me. At every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee. Dwell where it pleases thee.

And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all who are with thee. And in regard to all thou are righted.

And LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should give sons suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.

Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed.

And she went, and sat herself down opposite him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat opposite him, and the child lifted up its voice, and wept.

And God heard the voice of the lad. And the agent of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What troubles thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing, neither did thou tell me, nor yet did I hear of it, but today.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, What do these seven ewe lambs mean which thou have set by themselves?

And he said, These seven ewe lambs thou shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.

And it came to pass after these things, that God proved Abraham, and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder, and we will worship, and come again to you.

And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together.

And the agent of LORD called to him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

And Abraham called the name of that place LORD-jireh. As it is said to this day, In the mount of LORD it shall be provided.

and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son,

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

And he conversed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh.

And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came?

And Abraham said to him, Beware thou that thou not bring my son there again.

LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his [heavenly] agent before thee, and

And he said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

and said, Whose daughter are thou? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And there was set before him food to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not follow me.

And he said to me, LORD, before whom I walk, will send his [heavenly] agent with thee, and prosper thy way. And thou shall take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house.

And I came this day to the fountain, and said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if thou do now prosper my way which I go,

And before I was done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain, and drew. And I said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten. After that she shall go.

And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.

And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.

And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.

And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.

And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, why do I live? And she went to inquire of LORD.

And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.