11 And they smote the men that were at 29 And it came to pass, when Ged de the door of the house with blindness, both stroyed the cities of the plain. that God reBaa!! and great; so that they wearied them-membered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the selves to find the door. midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou the cities in the which Lot dwelt. bere any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and el thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughin the city, bring them out of this place: ters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoer: B For we will destroy this place, because and he dwct in a cave, he and hus two the cry of them is waxen great before the Sace of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. 11 And Lot went out, and spake unto his in-law, which married his daughters, id, Up, get ye cut of this place; for the will destroy this city. But he seemed daughters. SI And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law. 15 And when the morning arose, then 33 And they made their father drink the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take wine that night: and the first-born went thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are in, and lay with her father; and he perhere; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity ceived not when she lay down, nor when of the city. she arose. 16 And, while he lingered, the men laid 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, his wife, and upon the hand of his two I lay yesternight with my father: let us make daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him drink wine this night also, and go thou him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh! not so, my Lord. in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the first-born baren son. and cailed his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die the father of the children of Ammon unto 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi the same is 20 Behold now, this city is near to fee this day. ko, and it is a little one: Oh! let me e cape hither, (is it not a little one one?) and mys Shail live. AND CHAP. XX. ND Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled 21 And he said unto him, See, I have ac- between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned cepted thee concerning this thing also, that in Gerar. I will not overthrow this city, for the which And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, thou hast spoken. 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 211 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone 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 that which grew upon the ground. 261 But his wife looked back from behind bim, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abrahani gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 3 But Ged came to Abimelech ir a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said. LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister! and she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my beart, and innocency of my hands, have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for 1 also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. he LORD. 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Go- I thee not to touch her. morrah, and toward all the land of the plain, 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for went up as the sinoke of a furnace. thee, and thou shalt live: and if hou restore 8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. 9 Then Abimelech called Abraliam, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. 911 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Fgyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond-woman and her son: for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bord-woman; in all her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, 13 And also of the son of the bond-woman Surely the fear of God is not in this place; will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 14 And Abraham rose up early in the 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 12. And yet indeed she is my sister: she is morning, and took bread and a bottle of the daughter of my father, but not the daugh-water, and gave it unto Hagar, (putting it ter of my mother; and she became my wife. on her shoulder,) and the child, and sent her 13 And it came to pass, when God caused away; and she departed, and wandered in me to wander from my father's house, that the wilderness of Beer-sheba. I said unto her, This is thy kindness which 15 And the water was spent in the botthou shalt shew unto me; at every place tle, and she cast the child under one of the whither we shall come, say of me, He is my shrubs. brother. 16 And she went, and sat her down over 14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, against him a good way off, as it were a bowand men-servants, and women-servants, and shot; for she said, Let me not see the death gave them unto Abraham, and restored him of the child. And she sat over against him, Sarah his wife. and lifted up her voice, and wept. 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land 17 And God heard the voice of the lad: is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. and the angel of God called to Hagar out of 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other. Thus she was reproved. 171 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God hettled Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children. 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. CHAP. XXI.. A ND the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare te him, Isaac. Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw well of water: and she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink And God was with the lad; and ge ew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and be came an an 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 221 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest. 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, por with my son, nor with my son's son: but 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had command-according to the kindness that I have done ed him. unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech s servants had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tel. me, neither yet heard I of it. but to-day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech and both of them made a covenant. 23 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and the flock by themselves. looked, and, behold, behind him a raza caught in a thicket by his horus: and Abrahain went and took the ram, and offered hom up for a burnt-offering in the stead of hisson. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well. 31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines, 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day. In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. 15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD; for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son; 33 And Abraham planted a grove in 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the the LORD, the everlasting God. stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is 34 And Abraham səjourned in the Phili-upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall posstines' land many days. ND it CHAP. XXII. A came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. sess the gate of his enemies: 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obey ed my voice. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men; and they rose up, and went together And he said, Take now thy son, thine to Beer-sheba: and Abrabam dwelt at Beeronly son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get sheba. thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him 20 And it came to pass after these things, there for a burnt-offering upon one of the that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, mountains which I will tell thee of. 31 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the face of which God bad told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; 21 Huz his first-horn, and Buz kis brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bare te Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebab, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. CHAP. XXII. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Able ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. A ND Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his years of the life of Sarah. son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the knife: and they went both of them together. same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: ard 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his fa- Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to ther, and said, My father: and he said, Here weep for her. am 1, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burat-offering: so they went both of them together. 9 And they came to the place which God nad told him of: and Abraham built an al tar there, and laid the wood in order; and boumi Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of the LORE called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham! and he said, Here am I. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead.and spake untothesons of Heth, saying, 4 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. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our se pulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed him self to the people of the land, even to the 12 And he said, Lay not thine band upon 8 And he communed with them, saying, the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: if it be your mind that I should bury my for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing dead out of my sight, hear me, and entrea thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, ton, from me. children of Heth. 9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelab, which he hath, which is in the end of his field: for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me, for a possession of a burying-place among you. 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. 7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto Abraham in the audience of the children of thy seed will I give this laud; he shall send Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a his city, saying, 11 Nay, my lord, Hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. 12 And Abraham bowed down himself before die people of the land. 13 And he spake unto Ephron, in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou will give it, I pray thee, hear me I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the iand is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abrabain weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the Bons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current mumey with the merchant. wife unto my son from thence. 8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. 10 And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; (for all the goods of his master were in his hand ;) and he arose, and went to Mesopo tamia, unto the city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. 12 11 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 17 And the field of Ephron, which was 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, field, and the cave which was therein, and I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall all the trees that were in the field, that were say, Drink; and I will give thy camels in all the borders round about, were made drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession, in the thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. kindness unto my master. 15 1 And it came to pass, before he had 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came his wife in the cave of the field of Machpe-out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, lah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with the land of Canaan. 20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham, for a possession of a burying-place, by the sons of Heth. CHAP. XXIV. AN 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh; 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin; neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little wa ter of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upor her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels. 21 And the man, wondering at her, held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. 22 1 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, m the 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware as it is thou that thou bring not my son thither again ssion of 7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the children land of my kindred, and which spake u nswered me, and that sware unto ine, saying, Un Idren of thy seed will I give this laud; he shall send e gate of his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel amre, the to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, rein, and I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shell that were say, Drink; and I will give thy camels ere made drink also: let the sitme be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and on, in the thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed before all kindness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass, before he had ed Sarah donc speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came Machpe-out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Mileab, Hebron in the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. It is there- 16 And the damsel was very fair to look for a pos- upon, a virgin; neither had any man known he sons of her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and ell stricken said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little wa d blessed ter of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and est servant she hasted, and let down her pitcher upor at he had, her hand, and gave him drink. my thigh; 19 And when she had done giving him ear by the drink, she said, I will draw water for thy he God of camels also, until they have done drinking. a wife un- 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher e Canaan- into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for al his camels. buntry, and 21 And the man, wondering at her, held e unto my his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. im, Perad- 22 11 And it came to pass, as the camels e willing to had done drinking, that the man took a gol. needs bring den ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and om whence two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels and he said, Send me away unto my master. seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; 40 And he said unto me, The LORD, be-send me away, that I may go to my master fore whom I walk, will send his angel with 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my 42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lone God of my master Abraham, 57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And 58 And they called Rebekah, and said she said, I will go. 59 And they sent away Rebekah their sisand his men. ter, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unt her. Thou art our sister; be thou the mothe |