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Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

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

But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”

The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

The angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.”

The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

He said to him, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So shall your seed be.”

Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir.”

Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself.”

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.”

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.