And he gave him a tenth of all. (21) And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. (22) And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, 'God Most High, 2 possessor of heaven and earth, (23) that I will not take a thread nor a shoelatchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: (24) save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me; Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion. 6 5 and laid each half over against the other: 15 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, * and thy exceeding great reward. (2) And Abram said, O Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Dammesek Eliezer? (3) And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. (4) And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. (5) And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to tell them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. (6) And he believed 16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him in the LORD; and he counted it to him for no children: and she had an handmaid, an righteousness. (7) And he said unto him, Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. I am the LORD that brought thee out of And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land the LORD hath restrained me from bearto inherit it. (8) And he said, O Lord ing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handGOD, whereby shall I know that I shall maid; it may be that I shall obtain inherit it? (9) And he said unto him, children by her. And Abram hearkened Take me an heifer of three years old, and to the voice of Sarai. (3) And Sarai a she-goat of three years old, and a ram Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. (10) And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, (2) her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. (4) 1 Heb. El Elyon. 2 Or, maker. 3 Or, let there be nothing for me; only that &c. be exceeding great. Heb. Jehovah, as in other places where GOD is put in capitals. Chaldee and Syriac have, Eliezer the Damascene. 8 Heb. be builded by her. 4 Or, thy reward shall 6 Or, go hence. The And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. (5) And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes the LORD judge between me and thee. (6) But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face. (7) And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. (8) And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. (9) And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. (10) And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. (11) And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name 'Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. (12) And he shall be as a wildass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. (13) And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, *Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me? (14) Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. (15) And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (16) And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. 1 That is, God heareth. that is, God of seeing. 17 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect. (2) And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. (3) And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, (4) As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations. (5) Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. (6) And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. (7) And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. (8) And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (9) And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every male among you shall be circumcised. (11) And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you. (12) And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. (13) He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. (14) And the uncircumcised male who is 5 That is, The well of the living one who seeth me. (10) 4 Heb. El roi, not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, the men of his house, those born in the that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. house, and those bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. 18 And the LORD appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; (2) and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, (3) and said, My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: (4) let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the 4 5 And they said, (6) And Abra (15) And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but1 Sarah shall her name be. (16) And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her. (17) Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? (18) And Abraham, said unto God, Oh that Ishmael tree: (5) and I will fetch a morsel of might live before thee! (19) And God bread, and comfort ye your heart; after said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye thee a son; and thou shalt call his name are come to your servant. 2 Isaac: and I will establish my covenant So do, as thou hast said. with him for an everlasting covenant for ham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, his seed after him. (20) And as for Ish- and said, Make ready quickly three measmael I have heard thee: behold, I have ures of fine meal, knead it, and make blessed him, and will make him fruitful, cakes. (7) And Abraham ran unto the and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, princes shall he beget, and I will make and gave it unto the servant; and he him a great nation. (21) But my cove- hasted to dress it. (8) And he took butnant will I establish with Isaac, which ter, and milk, and the calf which he had Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time dressed, and set it before them; and he in the next year. (22) And he left off stood by them under the tree, and they did talking with him, and God went up from eat. (9) And they said unto him, Where Abraham. (23) And Abraham took Ish- is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, mael his son, and all that were born in his in the tent. (10) And he said, I will cerhouse, and all that were bought with tainly return unto thee when the season his money, every male among the men of cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife Abraham's house, and circumcised the shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, tent door, which was behind him. (11) as God had said unto him. (24) And Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and Abraham was ninety years old and nine, well stricken in age; it had ceased to be when he was circumcised in the flesh of with Sarah after the manner of women. his foreskin. (25) And Ishmael his son (12) And Sarah laughed within herself, was thirteen years old, when he was cir- saying, After I am waxed old shall I have cumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (26) pleasure, my lord being old also? (13) In the selfsame day was Abraham circum- And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherecised, and Ishmael his son. (27) And all fore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a 6 1 That is, Princess. 2 From the Heb. word meaning to laugh. Or, terebinths. • Or, O Lord. therefore. Heb. liveth, or, reviveth. 5 Or, for me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: (28) peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. (29) And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. (30) And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. (31) And he said, Behold surety bear a child, which am old? (14) Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season 2 cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son. (15) Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. (16) And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. (17) And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do; (18) seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? (19) now, I have taken upon me to speak unto For I have known him, to the end that the Lord: peradventure there shall be he may command his children and his twenty found there. And he said, I will household after him, that they may keep not destroy it for the twenty's sake. (32) the way of the LORD, to do justice and And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, judgement; to the end that the LORD may and I will speak yet but this once: peradbring upon Abraham that which he hath venture ten shall be found there. And he spoken of him. (20) And the LORD said, said, I will not destroy it for the ten's *Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah sake. (33) And the LORD went his way, is great, and because their sin is very as soon as he had left communing with grievous; (21) I will go down now, and Abraham: and Abraham returned unto see whether they have done altogether his place. 4 at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth; (2) and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. (3) And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and according to the cry of it, which is come 19 And the two angels came to Sodom unto me; and if not, I will know. (22) And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. (23) And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? (24) Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? (25) That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous entered into his house; and he made them should be as the wicked; that be far from a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth and they did eat. (4) But before they do right? (26) And the LORD said, If I lay down, the men of the city, even the find in Sodom fifty righteous within the men of Sodom, compassed the house city, then I will spare all the place for round, both young and old, all the people their sake. (27) And Abraham answered from every quarter; (5) and they called and said, Behold now, I have taken upon unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are 1 Or, wonderful. 2 Heb. liveth, or, reviveth. 3 See Amos iii. 2. • Or, Verily. 6 5 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: (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 evil overtake me, and I die: (20) behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. (21) And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which 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 came unto Zoar. (24) 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. (26) But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (27) And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD: (28) and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrahı, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. the men which came in to thee this night? LORD being merciful unto him: and they bring them out unto us, that we may know brought him forth, and set him without the them. (6) And Lot went out unto them city. (17) And it came to pass, when they to the door, and shut the door after him. (7) And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. (8) Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof. (9) And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. (10) But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. (11) And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. (12) And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them out of the place (13) for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. (14) And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which 2 married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons in law as one that mocked. (15) And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. (16) But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Or, for therefore. 2 Or, were to marry. the evil. 7 That is, Little, ver. 20. See ch. xiv. 8. (29) And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when 3 Or, punishment. 4 See ch. xiii. 10. |