hand against him: and

in your generations, he that is born the prefence of all his brethren. in the houfe, or bought with money of any ftranger, which is not of thy feed.

d the called the name of the
at fpake unto her, Thou God
for the faid, Have I alfo here
ter him that feeth me?
herefore the well was called
i-roi; behold, it is between
nd Bered.

nd Hagar bare Abram a fon:
n called his fons name, which
e, Ifhmack.

id Abram was fourfcore and ld, when Hagar bare Ifhmael

13 He thar is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, muft needs be circumcifed: and my covenant fhall be in your flesh for an everlafting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcifed man-child whofe flesh of his fore-skin is not circumcifed, 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 fbal her name be.

16 And I will bless her, and give thee Abrams 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.

CHA P. XVII.
nant is renewed.
ged. 10 Circumcifion infli-
Ifaac promifed.

en Abram was ninety years
d nine, the LORD appeared
and faid unto him, I am the
od; walk before me, and be

will make my covenant bend thee, and will multiply gly.

am fell on his face: and with him, faying,

e, behold, my covenant is
d thou shalt be a father of

hall thy name any more be
; but thy name fhall be
a father of many nations
hee.
ill make thee exceeding
will make nations of thee;
I come out of thee.

11 establish my covenant
d thee, and thy feed after
generations, for an ever-
t; to be a God unto thee,
after chee.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and faid in his heart, Shall a child 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!

19 And God faid, Sarah thy wife fhall bear thee a fon indeed; and thou fhalt call his name Ifaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlafting covenant, and with his feed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have bieffed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly: twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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

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

23 And Abraham took Ishmael his give unto thee, and to thy fon, and all that were born in his house, the land wherein thou art and all that were bought with his mothe land of Canaan, forney, every male among the men of Abrapoffeffion; and I will be hams houfe, and circumcifed the flesh of their fore-skin, in the felf-fame day, as God had faid unto him.

od faid unto Abraham, □ my covenant therefore,

24 And Abraham was ninety years old

Genefis.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, 23 And Abraham drew near, and and fetcht a calf tender and good, and faid, Wilt thou alfo deftroy the rightegave it unto a young man ; and he haft-ous with the wicked? ed to drefs it.

25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to flay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous fhould be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall 10 And he said, I will certainly re-not the Judge of all the earth do right? turn unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife fhall have a fon. And Sarah heard it in the tent-door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well ftricken in age and it ceafed to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her felf, faying, After I am waxed old, fhall I have pleasure, my lord being old

13 And the LORD faid unto Abraham, Wherciore did Sarah laugh, faying, Shall I of a furety bear a child, which am old?.

Abrahams interceffion for Sodom.

Chap. xix.

30 And he faid unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will fpeak Peradventure there fhall thirty be found there. And he faid, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

31 And he faid, Behold now, I have taken upon me to fpeak unto the Lord: Peradventure there fhall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not deftroy it for twenties fake.

32 And he faid, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will fpeak yet but this once: Peradventure ten fhall be found there. And he faid, I will not deftroy it for tens fake.

33 And the LORD went his way, affoon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

CHAP. XIX. 1 Lot entertaineth two angels. 24 Sodom and Gomorrah deftroyed. 26 Lots wife is punished. 31 His inceft.

Nd there came two angels to So

Lot entertaineth two angels.

man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and fhut to the door.

'II And they fmote the men that were at the door of the houfe with blindness, both fmall and great: fo that they wea ried themfelves to find the door.

12 And the men faid unto Lot, Haft thou here any befides? fon in law, and thy fons, and thy daughters, and what foever thou haft in the city, bring then out of this place.

13 For we will deftroy this place: becaufe the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD hath fent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and fpake unto his fons in law, which married his daugh ters, and faid, Up, get ye out of this place; for the LORD will deftroy this city but he feemed as one that mocked

A domhere cam, and lat in the tinto his fons in land.

gate of Sodom: and Lot feeing them, role up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2 And he faid, Behold now my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your fervants houfe, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rife up early, and go on your ways. And they faid, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.

3 And he preffed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entred into his houfe: and he made them a feaft, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, com Ipaffed the houfe round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. 5 And they called unto Lot, and faid unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and fhut the door after him, 7 And faid, I pray you, brethren, do not fo 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 thefe men do nothing; for therefore came they under the fhadow of my roof. 9 And they faid, Stand back. And they faid again, This one fellow came in to fojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worfe with thee, than with them. And they pressed fore upon the

15. And when the morning arofe, then the angels haftned Lot, faying, Arife, take thy wife, and thy two daugh ters which are here; left thou be confumed in the iniquity of the city.

16 And while he ingred, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merci ful unto him and they brought him forth, and fet him without the city.

17 And it came to país, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he faid, Efcape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither ftay thou in all the plain: cfcape to the mountain, left thou be confumed.

18 And lot faid unto them, Oh not fo, my Lord.

19 Behold now, thy fervant hath found grace in thy fight, and thou haft magnified thy mercy, which thou haft fhewed unto me in faving my life: and I cannot escape to the mountain, left fome evil take me, and I die.

20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one : Oh let me efcape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my foul fhall live.

21 And he faid unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing alfo, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou haft spoken.

22 Hafte 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 fun was rifen upon the earth

The deftruction of Sodom. when Lot entred into Zoar.

Genelis.

24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimftone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

25 And he overthrew thofe 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 fhe became a pillar of falt. 27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning, to the place where he ftood before the LORD.

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the fmoke of the country went up, as the fmoke of a furnace.

Abraham at Gerar.

toward the fouth-country, and dwelled between Cadeth 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 fhe is a mans wife.

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

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5 Said he not unto me, She is my fi fter? and fhe, even the her felf faid, He 29 And it came to pafs, when God de- is my brother: in the integrity of my ftroyed the cities of the plain,that God re-heart, and innocency of my hands have membred Abraham, and fent Lot out of done this. 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.

31And the firft-born faid unto the younger, Our father is old, and there, is not a man in the earth to come inunto 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 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.

younger,

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firft-born faid unto the 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 he lay down, nor when fhe arofe.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child 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.

СНАР. XX. 2 Abraham denieth his wife, and lofeth her. 14 Abimelech reftoreth her.

6 And God faid unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I alfo withheld thee from finning againft me: therefore fuffered I thee not to touch her. wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray 7 Now therefore reftore the man his for thee, and thou shalt 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 fervants, and told all these things in their cars: and the men were fore afraid.

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?thou haft done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

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

11 And Abraham faid, Becaufe I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will lay me for my wifes fake.

12 And yet indeed be is my fifter; he is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and the became my wife.

13 And it came to pass, when God caufed me to wander from my fathers houfe, that I faid unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt fhew unto me; At every place whither we shall come, fay of me, He is my brother.

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

15 And Abimelech faid, Behold, my morning, and took bread, and a bottle of land is before thee: dwell where it plea- water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her fhoulder) and the child, and fent her away: and the departed, and wan dred in the wilderness of Beer-fheba.

29 And Abimelech faid unto Abra13 And alfo of the fon of the bond-ham, What mean thefe feven ew-lambs, woman will I make a nation, becaufe he which thou haft fet by themselves? thy feed.