And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

And LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart. After that ye shall pass on, inasmuch as ye came to your servant. And they said, Do so as thou have said.

And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.

And Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it to the servant. And he hastened to dress it.

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

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.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old?

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 the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

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

since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoke

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

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which comes to me. And if not, I will know.

And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before LORD.

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

Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it?

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 LORD went his way as soon as he had left off conversing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

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 he urged them greatly. And they turned in to him, and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, encompassed the house around, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

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 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

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

Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shadow of my roof.

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

But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has been great before LORD. And LORD has sent us to destroy it.

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.

And when the morning arose, then the [heavenly] agents hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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.

Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

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.

Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before LORD.

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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 they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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 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, nor when she arose.

And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi. The same is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

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.

Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. And the men were exceedingly afraid.

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 moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became 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 took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife.

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 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.

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

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born 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.

And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

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

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 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.