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Abraham denies his wife.

GENESIS.

Isaac born. 29 And it came to pass, when God de- her not, know thou that thou shalt surely stroyed the cities of the plain, that God re- die, thou and all that are thine. membered Abraham, and sent Lot out of 8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the the midst of the overthrow, when he over- morning, and called all his servants, and threw the cities in the which Lot dwelt. told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

30 ¶ 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.

9 ¶ Then Abimelech called Abraham, 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 king31 ¶ And the first-born said unto the dom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto younger, Our father is old, and there is not me that ought not to be done. 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.

10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; 33 And they made their father drink and they will slay me for my wife's sake. wine that night and the first-born went in 12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she and lay with her father; and he perceived is the daughter of my father, but not the not when she lay down, nor when she arose. daughter of my mother: and she became 34 And it came to pass on the morrow my wife.

that the first-born said unto the younger, 13 And it came to pass, when God caused Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: me to wander from my father's house, that let us make him drink wine this night also; I said unto her, This is thy kindness which and go thou in, and lie with him, that we thou shalt shew unto me; At every place may preserve seed of our father. whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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 bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

CHAP. XX.

14 ¶ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have 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.

17 ¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and

AND Abraham journeyed from thence his maid-servants; and they bare children.

toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife,

She is my sister: And Abimelech king of

Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in 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 heart, and innocency of my hands have I done this.

18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

CHAP. XXI.

AND 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 to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundred years 6 And God said unto him in a dream, old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. Yea, I know that thou didst this in the in- 6 ¶ And Sarah said, God hath made me tegrity of thy heart; for I also withheld to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with thee from sinning against me: therefore me. suffered I thee not to touch her.

7 And she said, Who would have said

7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for children suck? for I have born him a son in thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore his old age.

Hagar banished.

CHAP. XXII. Abraham tempted to offer Isaac. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned:| 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who and Abraham made a great feast the same hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell day that Isaac was weaned. me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. 9¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, Egyptian, which she had born unto Abra- and gave them unto Abimelech: and both ham, 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.

of them made a covenant.

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

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, which thou hast set by themselves?

30 And he said, For these seven ewelambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well.

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto 31 Wherefore he called that place Beerher voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be sheba; because there they sware both of called.

13 And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15 And the water was spent in the bot

tle, and she cast the child under one of the

shrubs.

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.

33 ¶ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

CHAP. XXII.

AND it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: "And he said, Behold, here I am.

16 And she went, and sat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine death of the child. And she sat over against only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 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.

17 And God heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

3 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offerthine hand: for I will make him a great na-ing, and rose up, and went unto the place of tion. which God had told him.

19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water: and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

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

20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 6 And Abraham took the wood of the 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pa- burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his ran and his mother took him a wife out of son; and he took the fire in his hand and a the land of Egypt. knife: and they went both of them together.

22 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his faof his host spake unto Abraham, saying, ther, and said, My father: and he said, Here God is with thee in all that thou doest: am I, my son. And he said, Behold the 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by fire and the wood: but where is the lamb God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, for a burnt-offering?

nor with my son, nor with my son's son: 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will but according to the kindness that I have provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering. done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and so they went both of them together. to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 9 And they came to the place which God 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. had told him of; And Abraham built an al25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech tar there, and laid the wood in order; and because of a well of water, which Abime-bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the lech's servants had violently taken away. altar upon the wood.

The death of Sarah:

GENESIS. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 ¶ And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

The purchase of Machpelah.

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 sepulchres 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 himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and 8 And he communed with them, saying. looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught If it be your mind that I should bury my in a thicket by his horns: And Abraham dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat went and took the ram, and offered him up for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 9 That he may give me the cave of 14 And Abraham called the name of that Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the place_Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this end of his field; for as much money as it is day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be worth he shall give it me, for a possession of a burying-place among you..

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:

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice.

19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying,

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11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give 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 the people of the land.

13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt 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 land 20 And it came to pass after these is worth four hundred shekels of silver; things, that it was told Abraham, saying, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children therefore thy dead. unto thy brother Nahor;

21 Huz his first-born, and Buz his 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 bear to Nahor Abraham's brother.

24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

CHAP. XXIII.

16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure

18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the ND Sarah was an hundred and seven presence of the children of Heth, before

AND was an andre the w of of

years of the life of Sarah.

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2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the rah his wife in the cave of the field of Machsame is Hebron in the land of Canaan: pelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, in the land of Canaan.

and to weep for her.

20 And the field, and the cave that is 3 ¶ And Abraham stood up from before therein were made sure unto Abraham for his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, a possession of a burying-place, by the sons saying, of Heth.

4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

CHAP. XXIV.

AND Abraham was old and well stricken age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

The servant meets Rebekah :

Tells his errand. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

CHAP. XXIV. 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?

18 And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon 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 ¶ And it came to pass as the camels 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware had done drinking, that the man took a thou, that thou bring not my son thither golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels

again. 7 The LORD God of heaven, which weight of gold, took me from my father's house, and from 23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? the land of my kindred, and which spake tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, father's house for us to lodge in? Unto thy seed will I give this land: he shall 24 And she said unto him, I am the send his angel before thee, and thou shalt daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, take a wife unto my son from thence. which she bare unto Nahor.

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 Mesopotamia, 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 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:

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

26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.

29 ¶ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

30 And it came to pass when he saw the ear-ring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man, and behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD, wherefore standest thou with14 And let it come to pass, that the dam-out? for I have prepared the house, and sel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitch- room for the camels.

er, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she 32 And the man came into the house: shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw drink also: let the same be she that thou hast and provender for the camels, and water to appointed for thy servant Isaac; and there- wash his feet, and the men's feet that were by shall I know that thou hast shewed kind- with him. ness unto my master.

33 And there was set meat before him to 15¶ And it came to pass before he had eat: but he said, I will not eat until I have done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. out, who was born to Bethuel son of Mil- 34¶ And he said, I am Abraham's servant. cah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, 35 And the LORD hath blessed my maswith her pitcher upon her shoulder. ter greatly, and he is become great: and he 16 And the damsel was very fair to look hath given him flocks, and herds, and silupon, a virgin, neither had any man known ver, and gold, and men-servants, and maidher: and she went down to the well, and servants, and camels, and asses. filled her pitcher, and came up. 36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a

Rebekah solicited for Isaac.

GENESIS.

Isaac marries Rebekah. son to my master when she was old: and shipped the LORD, bowing himself to the unto him hath he given all that he hath. earth.

37 And my master made me swear, say- 53 And the servant brought forth jewels ing, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose and gave them to Rebekah: He gave also land I dwell: to her brother and to her mother precious

38 But thou shalt go unto my father's things. house, and to my kindred, and take a wife

54 And they did eat and drink, he and unto my son. the men that were with him, and tarried all 39 And I said unto my master, Perad-night; and they rose up in the morning, venture the woman will not follow me. and he said, Send me away unto my mas40 And he said unto me, the LORD, be- ter.

fore whom I walk, will send his angel with 55 And her brother and her mother said, thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt Let the damsel abide with us a few days, take a wife for my son of my kindred, and at the least ten; after that she shall go. of my father's house. 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and way: send me away, that I may go to my if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: 43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

master.

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

58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son. 61 And Rebekah arose, and her dam45 And before I had done speaking in sels, and they rode upon the camels, and mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth followed the man: and the servant took Rewith her pitcher on her shoulder; and she bekah, and went his way. went down unto the well, and drew water: 62 ¶ And Isaac came from the way of the and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south 46 And she made haste, and let down country. her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 63 Ånd Isaac went out to meditate in the Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: field at the even-tide: and he lifted up his so I drank, and she made the camels drink eyes, and saw, and behold, the camels were also. coming.

47 And I asked her, and said, Whose 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and daughter art thou? And she said, The when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom camel.

Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ear- 65 For she had said unto the servant, ring upon her face, and the bracelets upon What man is this that walketh in the field her hands. to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail and covered herself,

48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

67 And Isaac brought her into his mo49 And now if ye will deal kindly and ther Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and truly with my master, tell me and if not, she became his wife; and he loved her: tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, and Isaac was comforted after his mother's or to the left. death.

50 ¶ Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

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3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. 52 And it came to pass, that when Abra- And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and ham's servant heard their words, he wor-Letushim, and Leummim.

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