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Chap. xii.

and let us make us a name, left we be fcattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to fee the city,and the tower which the children of men built.

6 And the LORD faid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language,and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7. Go to, let us go down, and there contound their language, that they may not † understand one anothers tpeech.

8 So the LORD fcattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad, upon the face of all the earth.

to Thefe are the generations of Shem. Chro. Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.

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11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah,

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years, and begat fons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber. 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat fons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years and 19. begat Peleg.

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18 And Peleg lived thirty years,and begat Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begat fons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat* Serug.

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug, two hundred and feven years, and begat ions and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat ions and daughters.

26 And Terah lived feventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran : and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Caldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai,and the name of Nahors wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Ilcah.

30 But Sarai was barren, fhe bad no childe. 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the fon of Haran, his fons fon, and Sarai his daughter in law, his fon Abrams wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Caldees, to go into the land of Canaan: and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

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I God calleth Abram, and blefleth him with a promise of Chrift. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran: 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, which is promised him in a vifion. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh bim feign his wife to be bis fifter. 14 Pharaob baving taken her from him, by plagues is com pelled to restore her.

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2 And I will make of thee a great nation, 31.3. and I will blefs thee, and make thy name great; Heb. and thou shalt be a bleffing.

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3 And I will blefs them that bless thee, and a great curte him that curleth thee: * and in thee fhall nation all families of the earth be bleffed.

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ken unto him, and Lot went with him: and A- A&-3.25. 4 So Abram departed as the LORD had fpo 22 18 parted out of Haran, bram was feventy and five years old when he de-Gal.3.8.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers fon,and all their fubftance that they had Haran,and they went forth to go into the landof gathered, and the fouls that they had gotten in Canaan: and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram paffed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. Or, And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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8 And he removed from thence unto a moun-13.4 tain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent having Beth-el on the weft, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the LORD: and called upon the Name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, † going on ftill to ward the fouth.

Heb. in going To And there was a famine in the land, and and jour Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there: neying. for the famine was grievous in the land.

11 And it came to pals, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he faid unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.

12 Therefore it shall come to pafs, when the Egyptians fhall fee thee, that they fhall fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive.

13 Say I pray thee, thou art my fifter, that it may be well with me for thy fake; and my foul fhall live because of thee.

14 And it came to pafs, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that he was very fair.

15 The princes alfo of Pharaoh faw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the wo man was taken into Pharaohs houfe.

16 And he entreated Abram well for her fakes and he had fheep and oxen, and he-affes, and men-fervants, and maid-fervants, and fhe-affes, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his houfe with great plagues, because of Sarai Abranis wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou haft done unto me? why did thou not tell me that the was thy wife?

19 Why faideft thou, She is my fifter? fo might have taken her to me to wife: now there fore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. cerning

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2 And Abram was very rich in cattel, in filver,and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the fouth, even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai.

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the firft: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

5 And Lot alfo which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a ftrife between the herd men of Abrams cattel, and the herdmen of Lots eattel: and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

8 And Abram laid unto Lot, Let there be no ftrife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and, thy herdmen; for we bet brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thy felf, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right: or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD deftroyed Sodom and Gomorrah even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comeft unto Zoar.

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II Then Lot chofe him all the plain of Jordan: and Lot journeyed eaft, and they feparated themselves the tone from the other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and his Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched bis tent toward Sodom.

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4 Twelve years they ferved Chedorlaumer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and fmote the Rephaims in Afhteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham,and the Emims in Shaveh-Gr, Kirjathaim.

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7 And they returned and came to Enmishpat, Plain of which is Kadesh, and fmote all the countrey of Paran the Amalekites, and alfo the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon Tamar.

8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zebojim, and the king of Bela, (the fame is Zoar) and they joyned battel with them in the vale of Siddim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellafar; four kings with five.

To And the vale of Siddim t was full of t Heb. flime-pits and the kings of Sodom and Go-pits, pi morrah fled and fell there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.

And they took all the goods of Sodom, and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

12 And they took Lot, Abrams brothers fon (who dwelt in Sodom) and his goods, and departed.

13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Efhcol, and brother of Aner: and thefe were confede rate with Abram.

14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; he armed his trained fer 01, vants born in his own houfe, three hundred and eighteen, and purfued them unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, he and his fervants by night, and finote them, and pursued them unto Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damafcus:

16 And he brought back all the goods, and alfo brought again his brother Lot,and his goods, and the women alfo, and the people,

17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, (after his return from the flaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him) at the valley of Shaveh,which is the kings dale.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the moft high God.

19 And he bleffed him, and faid, Bleffed be Abram of the most high God, poffeflour of heaven and earth.

20 And bleffed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand: and he gave him tithes of all.

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21 And the king of Sodom faid unto Abram, Give me the t perfons, and take the goods to He thy felf.

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4 As for me,behold,my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither fhall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name fhall be Abraham: *for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and I will make nations of thee, and kings hall come out of thee.

thee 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee in their geherations, for an everlafting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy feed after thee.

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8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy feed after thee, the land † wherein thou art a ftranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting poffeffion; and I will be their God..

9 And God laid unto Abraham, Thoufhalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy feed after thee in their generations.

He entertaineth three angels.

26 In the felf-fame day was Abraham circumcifed, and Ifhmael his fon.

27 And all the men of his houfe, born in the houfe, and bought with money of the ftranger, were circumcifed with him.

CHAP. XVIII.

Abraham entertameth three angels. 9 Sarahis reproved for laughing at the strange promife. 17 The deftruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham. 23 Abraham maketh intercession for the men thereof.

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Aplains of Mamre, and he fat in the tent door, in the heat of the day.

2* And he lift up his eyes, and looked; and * Heb, lo, three men ftood by him: and when he faw 13.2. them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.

3 And faid, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy fight, país not away, I pray thee, from thy fervant:

to This is my covenant which ye fhall keep between me and you, and thy feed after thee: Every man-childe among you fhall be circumcifed. II And ye fhall circumcife the flesh of your fore-skin; and it fhall be a token of the cove-the tree. nant betwixt me and you.

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12 And the that is eight days old,fhall be circumcifed among you: every man-childe in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any ftranger, which is not of thy feed:

13 He that is born in thy houfe, and he that is bought with thy money, muft needs be circumcifed: and my covenant shall be in your flefh, for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcifed man-childe, whofe flefh of his fore-skin is not circumciled, that foul fhall be cut off from his people: he hath broken my covenant.

15 And God faid unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah fhall her name be.

16 And I will blefs her, and give thee a fon alfo of her: yea, I will blefs her, and the fhall be a mother of nations: kings of people fhall be of her..

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed and faid in his heart, Shall a childe be born unto him that is an hundred years old, and fhall Sarah that is ninety years old bear?

18 And Abraham faid unto God, O that Ifhmael might live before thee.

19And God faid,*Sarah thy wife fhall bear thee a fon indeed, and thou fhalt call his name Ifaac, and I will eftablifh my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant,andwith his feed after him. 20 And as for Ifhmael, I have heard thee, behold, I have bleffed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiply him excedingly: twelve princes fhall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Ifaac, whom Sarah fhall bear untothee, at this fet time, in the next year.

22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

23 And Abraham took Ifhmael his fon, and all that were born in his houfe, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abrahams houfe, and circumcited the flefh of their fore-skin in the felf-fame day, as God had faid unto him.

24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcifed in the flesh of his fore-skin.

25 And Ifhmael his fon was thirteen years old, when he was circumcifed in the flesh of his ore-skin.

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and reft your felves under

5 And I will fetch a morfel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts, after that ye fhall past Heb. on: for therefore † are ye come to your fer- ftay vant. And they faid, So do, as thou haft faid.

t Heb.. ye haye 6 And Abraham haftened into the tent unto paffed Sarah, and faid, Make ready quickly threet Heb. meafures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes afte upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd and fetcht a calf, tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, and he hafted to drets it.

8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dreffed, and fet it before them, and he ftood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

9 And they faid unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he faid, Behold, in the tent.

To And he faid, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life,and lo, Sa-t Heb. rah thy wife fhall have a fon. And Sarah heard to the 17 ving time it in the tent door which was behinde him. II Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and 17.21. well ftricken in age, and it ceafed to be with Chap. 17.19. Sarah after the manner of women.

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12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her felf, and 21.2€ faying, After I am waxed old, fhall I have pleafure, my lord being old alfo?

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13 And the LORD faid unto Abraham,Where- 3.6. fore did Sarah laugh, faying, Shall I of a furety bear a childe which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed will I return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah fhall have a fon.

15 Then Sarah denied, faying, I laughed Job not, for fhe was afraid: And he faid, Nay, but 8.18. thou diddeft laugh.

16 And the men rofe up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

17 And the LORD faid, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham fhall furely become great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth fhall be bleffed in him?

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19 For I know him, that, he will command his 12.3 and children, and his houshold after him, and they hall keep the way of the LORD, to do juftice Gal and judgement, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath fpoken of him.

20 And the LORD faid,Becaufe the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their fin is very grievous : 21 I will

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23 That I will not take from a threed even to
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that is thine, left thou shouldeft fay, I have made
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24 Save only that which the young men have
caten, and the portion of the men which went
with me Aner, Efhcol, and Manire: let them
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God encourageth Abram. 2 Abram complain
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a fon, and a multiplying of his feed. 6 Abram
is justified by faith. 7 Canaan is promised again,
and confirmed by a figne, 12 and a vision.

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2 And Abram faid, Lord Gon, what wilt thou give me, feeing I go childless, and the fteward of my houfe is this Eliezer of Damafcus.

3 And Abram faid, Behold, to me thou haft given no feed: and lo, one born in my houfe is mine heir.

4 And behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, faying, This fhall not be thine heir: but he that fhall come forth out of thine own bowels fhall be thine heir.

5. And he brought him forth abroad; and faid,
Look now towards heaven, and tell the ftars, if
thou be able to number them: and he faid unto
him. So fhall thy feed be.

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thee this land to inherit it.

6 And he beleeved in the LORD, and he
counted it to him for righteou nefs.

8 And he faid, Lord GOD, whereby fhall I know that I fhall inherit it?

9 And he faid unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a fhe-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgafhite, and the Jebufite.

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Sarai being barrel, giveth Hagar to Abram. 6 Hagar being afflicted for despising ber miftris,run eth away.9 An angel fendeth ber back to submit ber felft telleh ber of her child. 151fhmael is born. Ndress and the had an handmaid, an Egypti

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2 And Sarai faid unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath reftrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in unto my maid: it may be that I may tobtain children by her: and Abran hearkned to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai Abrams wife took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.

4 And he went in unto Hagar, and the conceived: and when the faw that the had conceived, her miftrefs was defpifed in her eyes.

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5 And Sarai faid unto Abram, My wrong. upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bofom, and when the faw that he had conceived, I was defpifed in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram faid unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand: do to her † as it pleafeth thee. And when Sarai + dealt hardly with her, he fled from her face.

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And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wildernets, by the fountain in the way to Shur:

8 And he faid, Hagar Sarais maid, whence cameft thou? And whither wilt thou go? and the faid, I flee from the face of my miftrefs Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, Return to thy miftrefs, and fubmit thy felf under her hands.

10 And the angel of the LORD faid unto her. I will multiply thy feed exceedingly, that it hall not be numbred for multitude.

II And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and fhalt bear a a-fon, and fhalt call his name Ifhmael: becaufe the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

10 And he took unto him all the fe, and divi-
ded them in the midft, and laid each piece one
gainst another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the
earcafes, Abram drove them away.

12 And when the fun was going down, a deep
fleep fell upon Abram: and lo, an horror of
great darkness fell upon him.

13 And he faid unto Abram, Know of a furety A&.7.6 *that thy feed fhall be a ftranger in a land that is not theirs, and fhall ferve them and they fhall afflict them four hundred years:

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14 And alfo that nation, whom they fhall ferve, will I judge: and afterward fhall they come out with great fubftance.

15 And thoufhalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou fhalt be buried in a good old age.

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12 And he will be a wilde man: his hand he will be against every man, and every mans hand against him: and he fhall dwell in the prefence of all his brethren.

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13 And the called the name of the LORD that o fpake unto her,+Thou God feeft me: for the faid, Have I alfo here looked after him that feeth me?

14 Wherefore the well was called * Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Cadeth and Bered. 15 And Hagar bare Abram a fon : and Abram called his fons name, which Hagar bare, f Ishmael.

16 And Abram was fourfcore and fix years old, when Hagar bare fhmael to Abram. CHAP. XVII.

16 But in the fourth generation they fhall come hither again: for the iniquity of the A-r God reneweth the covenant. 5 Abram bis name morite is not yet full.

17 And it came to pafs that when the fun went down, and it was dark, behold a fmoaking furnace, and at burning lamp that paffed be tween those pieces.

18 In that fame day the LORD t made a coveAnant with Abram, faying, Unto thy feed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite:

20 And the Hittite, and'the Perizzite, and the Rephaims:

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kaka, and toward all the land of the plain, and Beheld, and lo, the fmoke of the countrey went up as the finoke of a furnace.

29 And it came to pafs when God deftroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembred Abraham, and fent Lot out of the midft of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

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.

31 And the firft-born faid unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the maner of all

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32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preferve feed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firft-born went in, and lay with her father, and he perceived not when the lay down, nor when the arofe.

34 And it came to pals on the morrow. that the firft-born faid unto the younger, Behold, I lay yefternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night alfo, and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preferve feed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night alfo, and the younger arofe, and lay with him: and he perceived not when the lay down, nor when the arofe.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with childe by their father.

37 And the firft-born bare a fon, and called his name Moab: the fame is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, fhe alfo bare a fon, and called his name Ben-ammi: the fame is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. CHAP. XX.

I Abraham Jojourneth at Gerar,2 denieth his wife, and lofeth her: 3 Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream: 9 He rebuketh Abraham, 14 reforeth Sarah, 16 and reproveth ber: 17 He is bealed by Abrahams prayer.

Nd Abraham journeyed from thence toA wards the fouth country, and dwelt be

tween Cadefh and Shur, and fojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham faid of Sarah his wife, She is my fifter: and Abimelech king of Gerar fent and took Sarah.

3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and faid to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou haft taken: for the ista mans wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he faid, Lord, wilt thou flay alfo a righteous nation?

5 Said he not unto me, She is my fifter? and fhe, even fhe her felf faid, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart, and innocency of my hands have I done this.

6 And God laid unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didft this in the integrity of thy heart: for I alfo withheld thee from finning against me, therefore fuffered I thee not to ouch her.

Now therefore reftore the man bis wife: for he is a prophet, and he fhall pray for thee, and thou fhalt live: and if thou reftore her not, know thou, that thou fhalt furely die, thou, and all that are thine.

8 Therefore Abimelech rofe early in the morning, and called all his fervanss, and told

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9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and faid unto him, What haft thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou haft brought on me, and on my kingdom a great fin?l thou haft done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

To And Abimelech faid unto Abraham, What faweft thou, that thou haft done this thing?

11 And Abraham faid, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place: and they will flay me for my wives fake." 12 And yet indeed fhe is my fifter: fhe is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and fhe became my wife.

13 And it came to país, when God caufed me to wander from my fathers houfe, that I laid unto her, This is thy kindness which thou fhalt fhew unto me; at every place whither we fhall come fay of me, Heis my brother.

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14 And Abimelech took fheep and oxen, and 12. 13. men-fervants, and women-fervants, and gave them unto Abraham, and reftored him Sarah his wife.

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15 And Abimelech faid,Behold, my land is be fore thee, dwell where it pleafeth thee. + Heb. 16 And unto Sarah he faid, Behold, I have gi-in thing a is good ven thy brother a thousand pieces of filver be-eyes. hold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus he was reproved.

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17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidMervants, and they bare children.

18 For the LORD had faft clofed up all the wombs of the houfe of Abimelech, becaufe of Sarah Abrahams wife.

CHAP. XXI. Ifaac is born: 4 Heis circumcifed: 6 Sarahs joy. 9 Hagar and Ihmael are caft forth. 15 Hagar in distress: 17 The angel comforteth ber. 22 Abimelechs covenant with Abraham at Beer-fbeba. and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had Nd the LORD vifited Sarah, as he had laid,

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poken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a A&.7.8, fon in his old age, at the fet time of which God Gal 4:2 had fpoken to him.

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3 And Abraham called the name of his fon 11. that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Ifaac.

And Abraham circumcifed his fon Haac being eight days old, as God had commanded him..

5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his fon Ifaac was born unto him.

6 And Sarah faid, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

7 And fhe, faid, Who would have faid unto Abraham,that Sarah fhould have given children fuck? for I have born bim a fon in his old age? 8 And the child grew, and was weaned and Abraham made a great feaft the fame day that Ifaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah faw the fon of Hagar the Egypti an,which fhe had born unto Abraham,mocking:

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to Wherefore the faid unto Abraham, Caft Gal out this bond-woman and her fon, for the fon 4 30. of this bond-woman fhall not be heir with my fon, even with Ifaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abra hams fight, becaufe of his fon.

12 And God faid unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy fight, becaufe of the lad, and becaufe of thy bond-woman. In all that Saral

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