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So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

Verse ConceptsCattleNot FindingMammalsNo HelpRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulBirdsPetslonliness

But the Lord said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainBlood, as symbol of guiltDeath penaltyRevenge, And RetaliationSanctity Of LifeSevenfoldRestraints From KillingMarks On PeopleDeath Penalty For KillingMan AvengingRevenge

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, "God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him."

Verse ConceptsAdam, After The FallAbelAbel and CainMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenExchange Of IndividualsKilling Named IndividualsPeople With Apt NamesAdam and evepremarital

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAgriculture, Effects Of FallImperfection, Influence OfPunishment, Nature OfWork, And The FallTypes Of ChristComfort, Of FriendsGod CursingThe Fact Of ToilPeople With Apt NamesAgriculture

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Verse ConceptsNoah's Ark

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsTwo AnimalsMale And Female AnimalsUnclean Animals

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTTypes Of ChristShutting SecurelyShutting DoorsMale And Female Animals

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheCovenant, God's with NoahRemnantDeath Of CreaturesGod KillingSole SurvivorsDeath Of Other GroupsGod Killing All People

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheCovenant, God's with NoahMemoriesWindAnimals, Care ForDivine RemembranceGod Dispensing WindGod Remembering His PeopleWaters SubsidingNoah's Flood

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Verse ConceptsOlivesBreaking SticksKnowing FactsWaters SubsidingOlive TreesFloodsRainbow

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPeople WaitingPeople Sending Creatures

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

Verse ConceptsKnowing FactsDrunkenness

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

Verse ConceptsAbrahamFaith, Nature OfAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifeGoing Together

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTThe King's Orders

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Calling And LifeGoing Together

After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King's Valley).

Verse ConceptsCarnageMeeting People

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfAbrahamBody

The Lord said to him, "I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProperty, LandWorldlinessThe Promised LandI Am The LordBringing People Out Of Other Places

The Lord said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."

Verse ConceptsGoatsAbrahamdovesCarcass, Literal UsePigeonsAnimals, Types OfHeifersAnimals At Specific Ages

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

Verse ConceptsKnivesFractions, One HalfOpposite SidesHalf Of BodiesBirdscutting

So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

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

Then the Lord's angel said to her, "You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.

Verse ConceptsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Pays Attention

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers."

Verse ConceptsIndependenceOpposite SidesWild DonkeysConflictFamily Conflictislam

God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

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

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Number TwelveAbraham, Testing And VictoryAnswered PrayerProsperity PromisedGod Multipling PeopleTwelve BeingsBlessed By GodGod Paid Attention To MeSons Being A Blessingfruitfulness

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Verse ConceptsLast WordsGod ArisingFinishing Strong

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordBowingSalutationsThree MenIndividuals RunningTrinity

Then they asked him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He replied, "There, in the tent."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?sarah

One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

Verse ConceptsListeningSanctity Of LifeConceptionBirths ForetoldThe Promise Of A Babysarah

Abraham spoke to him again, "What if forty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the sake of the forty."

Verse ConceptsFortiesNumbers Of Righteous People

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsImportunity, Towards PeopleProperty, HousesYeastThose Who Provided A Meal

Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

Verse ConceptsShutting SecurelyShutting Doors

Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father."

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessgrandfathers

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersAlcoholic BeveragessexFather And Daughter Relationships

So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, "Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Daughters

So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Verse ConceptsRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else's wife."

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightDeath As PunishmentTransferring WivesDirect Communication Through Dreams

Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

Verse ConceptsSheepOwning LivestockReinstating PeopleGroups Of SlavesPeople Giving Other ThingsPossessing Sheepsarah

Abraham named his son -- whom Sarah bore to him -- Isaac.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Peoplesarah

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTLess Than A Year OldGod's Orders

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

Verse ConceptsThe Age At FatherhoodThe Promise Of A Babysarah

She went on to say, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!"

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."

Verse ConceptsTaking By The Hand

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningLiving In The Wilderness

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" Abraham replied.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamAbraham, Characteristics OfTrialsAbraham, Testing And VictoryBehold Me!Temptation

God said, "Take your son -- your only son, whom you love, Isaac -- and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

Verse ConceptsCalvaryAbrahamAtonement, Types OfLove, And The WorldSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Places OfThe Only ChildSacrificing The FirstbornOnly Child Of PeopleThose Who Loved

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

But the Lord's angel called to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDuplicating WordsBehold Me!God Speaks From HeavenJesus Role In Salvation

"Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGodly Fear, Examples OfThe Only ChildOnly Child Of PeopleIndividuals Fearing GodNot SparingGod ForbiddingLeaving People Alone

Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamHornsRamsSubstitutionNames Of GodHorns Of AnimalsVicarious Substitution

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children -- Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site."

Verse ConceptsCavesCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's PresenceBurying placescouples

Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth -- 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsMerchantsTradeWeighingIn Men's PresenceAgreeing With One Anotherhumor

The servant asked him, "What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.

Verse ConceptsReturning to the old

"Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersHasty ActionPutting Things Down

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

Verse ConceptsThis Is Me

Laban said to him, "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianCamelsHospitalityTravellersA Place PreparedBlessed By GodOutside The HouseBlessings From Godspace

So Abraham's servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

Verse ConceptsBathing, For CleansingGuestsMangersStrawWaterFeet WashingThings StrippedEntering HousesFeeding AnimalsMan Providing WaterClean FeetCare Of Feet

"The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCowsGenerosity, God'sGoldSilverAbraham, In SocietyOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesSupplied With MoneyBlessed By GodMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

My master's wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersHope For Old People

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."

Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesEating And DrinkingPeople Sending People

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.

Verse ConceptsCavesCaves For BuryingCaves Used As Graves

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstOuter GarmentsHairy PeopleRed BodiesTwin BrothersColorHair

When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Verse ConceptsHeelsGraspingPeople With Apt NamesTwin Brothers

But Jacob said, "Swear an oath to me now." So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanYielding To Temptation

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersAsking Particular QuestionsMisrepresentationOther WivesBeautiful Women

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfOwning LivestockThose Who EnviedPossessing Sheeppossessions

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water belongs to us!" So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversFear, Overcome ByProsperity PromisedGod With YouVisions At NightGod AppearingGod Multipling PeopleI Am GodGod Will BlessDo Not Fear For God Will HelpFor The Sake Of God's People

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

Verse Conceptsadvisers

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Causes OfOld Age, DisabilitiesEyes, Affected BydisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfVisionWeakness, PhysicalDimness Of VisionBehold Me!Others Summoning

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