Bible in 90 Days
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God, all sufficient. Walk before me and be upright.
2 “And I will make My Covenant between Me and you; and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Then Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,
4 “Behold, I make My Covenant with you; and you shall be a father of many nations.
5 “Nor shall your name be called Abram anymore; but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
6 “Also, I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and will make nations from you. Indeed, kings shall proceed from you.
7 “Moreover, I will establish My Covenant between Me and you and your seed after you (in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant), to be God to you and to your seed after you.
8 “And I will give you the land wherein you are a stranger, to you and your seed after you, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
9 Again, God said to Abraham, “You also shall keep My Covenant, you and your seed after you, in their generations.
10 “This is My Covenant which you shall keep between Me and you and your seed after you: Let every male child among you be circumcised.
11 “That is, you shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh; and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between Me and you.
12 “And every male child among you of eight days old shall be circumcised in your generations, as well he who is born in your house (such as he who was bought with money from any stranger; who is not of your seed).
13 “He who is born in your house, and he who was bought with your money, must be circumcised. So, My Covenant shall be in your flesh, for an everlasting Covenant.
14 “But the uncircumcised child (in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised), even that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken My Covenant.”
15 Afterward, God said to Abraham, “Sarai, your wife, you shall not call ‘Sarai’; but ‘Sarah’ shall be her name.
16 “And I will bless her and will also give you a son by her. Indeed, I will bless her; and she shall be the mother of nations. Kings of people shall come from her.”
17 Then, Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?”
18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live in Your sight.”
19 Then God said, “Sarah, your wife, shall indeed bear you a son. And you shall call his name ‘Isaac’; and I will establish My Covenant with him and with his seed after him, for an everlasting Covenant.
20 “And concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Lo, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes; and I will make a great nation from him.
21 “But I will establish My Covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you next year at this season.”
22 And he ceased talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.
23 Then, Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all who were born in his house, and all that was bought with his money (that is, every male child among the men of Abraham’s house) and he circumcised the foreskin of their flesh on that same day, as God had commanded him.
24 And Abraham himself was ninety-nine years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised the same day.
27 And all the men of his house (born in his house and bought from a stranger, with money) were circumcised with him.
18 Again the LORD appeared to him on the plain of Mamre, as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked. And lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself to the ground.
3 And he said, “Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, please do not go from Your servant.
4 “Please let a little water be brought; and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
5 “And I will bring a morsel of bread, so that you may comfort your hearts. Afterward, you shall go your ways. For therefore have you come to your servant.” And they said, “Do even as you have said.”
6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, to Sarah, and said, “Make ready at once three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes upon the hearth.”
7 And Abraham ran to the beasts and took a tender and good calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to make it ready.
8 And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set them before them, and stood by them under the tree. And they ate.
9 Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” And he answered, “Behold, in the tent.”
10 And he said, “I will certainly come again to you according to the time of life. And lo, Sarah, your wife, shall have a son.” And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and stricken in age. And Sarah was past child-bearing years.
12 Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my lord also, shall I have pleasure?”
13 And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I, who am old, surely bear a child?’
14 “Shall anything be hard to the LORD? At the time appointed I will return to you—according to the time of life—and Sarah shall have a son.”
15 But Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh.” For she was afraid. And he said, “It is not so. For you did laugh.”
16 Afterward, the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do,
18 “seeing that Abraham shall indeed be a great and a mighty nation, and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him?
19 “For I know him, that he will command his sons and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD: to do righteousness and judgment. So that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken to him.”
20 Then the LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is exceedingly grievous,
21 “I will go down now and see whether they have done entirely according to that cry which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.”
22 And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. But Abraham still stood before the LORD.
23 Then Abraham drew near, and said, “Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
24 “If there are fifty righteous within the city, will you destroy (and not spare the place) because of the fifty righteous that are therein?
25 “Be it far from You from doing this thing—to slay the righteous with the wicked—and that the righteous should be even as the wicked. Be it far from You! Shall not the Judge of all the world do right?”
26 And the LORD answered, “If I shall find fifty righteous within the city of Sodom, then will I spare all the place for their sakes.”
27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Behold now, I have begun to speak to my Lord; and I am but dust and ashes.
28 “If there shall be five less than fifty righteous, will You destroy all the city for five?” And He said, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
29 And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, “What if there shall be found forty there?” Then He answered, “I will not do it for forty’s sake.”
30 Again he said, “Do not let my Lord now be angry at what I speak. What if thirty are found there?” Then He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Moreover he said, “Behold now, I have begun to speak to my Lord. What if twenty are found there?” And He answered, “I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.”
32 Then he said, “Do not let my Lord now be angry, and I will speak but once more. What if ten are found there?” And He answered, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”
33 And the LORD went His way when he had finished communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place.
19 And in the evening, two angels came to Sodom. And Lot sat at the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.
2 And he said, “See my lords, please turn in now into your servant’s house and stay the night and wash your feet. And you shall rise up early and go your ways.” They said, “No; but we will spend the night in the street.”
3 Then he pressed upon them earnestly; and they turned in to him and came to his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread. And they ate.
4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city (the men of Sodom, from the young even to the old, all the people from all quarters) surrounded the house.
5 And crying to Lot, they said to him, “Where are the men who came to you this night!? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them!”
6 Then Lot went out to them at the door, and shut the door after him,
7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not behave so wickedly.
8 “Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man. I will bring them out to you now; and do to them as seems good. Only, do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 Then they said, “Get out of here!” And they said, “He has come alone, as a stranger; and shall he judge and rule? We will now deal worse with you than with them!” So, they pressed hard upon Lot himself, and came to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door.
11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they were weary in seeking the door.
12 Then the men said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Either son-in-law, or your sons or your daughters, or whatever you have in the city, bring it out of this place.
13 “For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, “Arise! Get out of this place. For the LORD will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law as though he were joking.
15 And when the morning arose, the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Arise! Take your wife and your two daughters which are here, lest you be destroyed in the punishment of the city.”
16 And as he hesitated, the men caught both him and his wife and his two daughters by the hands (the LORD being merciful to him); and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
17 And when they had brought them out, the angel said, “Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape into the mountain, lest you be destroyed.”
18 And Lot said to them, “Please, no, my Lord!
19 “Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight; and you have magnified your mercy; which you have shown to me in saving my life. But I cannot escape into the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die.
20 “See, now, this city nearby to flee to, which is a little one. Oh, let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live!”
21 Then he said to him, “Behold, I have received your request concerning this thing also: that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.
22 “Hurry! Escape there. For I can do nothing till you get there.” Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The Sun rose upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah (from the LORD out of Heaven)
25 and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the Earth.
26 Now his wife behind him looked back; and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham, rising up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 And, looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, behold, he saw the smoke of the land mounting up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And yet, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God thought upon Abraham. And He sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities wherein Lot dwelled.
30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain with his two daughters; for he was afraid to remain in Zoar, but dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the elder said to the younger, “Our father is old; and there is not a man on the Earth to come into us after the manner of all the Earth.
32 “Come, we will make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.”
33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the elder went and lay with her father. But he did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
34 And the next day, the elder said to the younger, “Behold, last night I lay with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and you go and lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.”
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. But he did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the elder bore a son. And she called his name, Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 And the younger bore a son also. And she called his name, Ben-Ammi. The same is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
20 Afterward, Abraham departed from there 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.” Then Abimelech, King of Gerar, sent for and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are indeed dead, because of the woman which you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
4 Notwithstanding, Abimelech had not yet come near her. And he said, “Lord, will you kill even the righteous nation?
5 “Did not he say to me, ‘She is my sister?’ Yes, and she herself said, ‘He is my brother’. With an upright mind, and innocent hands I have done this.”
6 And God said to him by a dream, “Indeed, I know that you did this with an upright mind. And I also restrained you, so that you should not sin against Me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.
7 “Now then, restore the man’s wife to him. For he is a Prophet; and he shall pray for you, so that you may live. But if you do not restore her, be sure that you shall die the death, you and all that you have.”
8 Then Abimelech, rising up early in the morning, called all his servants and told all these things to them; and the men were very afraid.
9 Afterward, Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I offended you, that you have brought this great sin on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.”
10 So Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
11 Then Abraham answered, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
12 “Yet in truth she is my sister. For she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she is my wife.
13 “Now when God caused me to wander out of my father’s house, I said then to her, ‘This is your kindness that you shall show to me in all places where we come: Say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and men servants, and women servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
15 And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
16 Likewise to Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is the veil of your eyes to all that are with you, and to all others.” And she was thus rebuked.
17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his women servants. And they bore children.
18 For the LORD had shut up every womb of the House of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21 Now the LORD visited Sarah, as he had said, and did to her according to His promise.
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the same season that God told him.
3 And Abraham called his son’s name who was born to him, Isaac (which Sarah bore him).
4 Then Abraham circumcised Isaac, his son, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 So Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me rejoice! All who hear will rejoice with me!”
7 Again she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 Then the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.
10 Therefore, she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son! For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11 And this thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight, because of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the child, or because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah shall say to you, hear her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.
13 As for the son of the bondwoman, I will make him a nation also; because he is your seed.
14 So Abraham arose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her and the child away. They departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And when the water of the bottle was spent, she cast the child under a certain tree.
16 Then she went and sat opposite him at a distance of about a bow shoot. For she said, “I will not see the death of the child.” And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.
17 Then God heard the voice of the child. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from Heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear. For God has heard the voice of the child where he is.
18 “Arise, take up the child and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great people.”
19 And God opened her eyes; and she saw a well of water. So, she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the boy drink.
20 So God was with the child. And he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and was an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22 And at the same time, Abimelech and Phichol, his chief captain, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23 “Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not hurt me, nor my children, nor my children’s children. You shall deal with me, and with the country where you have been a stranger, according to the kindness that I have showed you.
24 Then Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing. Also, you didn’t tell me, nor had I heard of it, until today.
27 Then Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set apart seven lambs of the flock.
29 Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven lambs mean which you have set apart?
30 And he answered, “Because you shall receive these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I have dug this well.”
31 Therefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swore.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Afterward, Abimelech and Phichol, the chief captain, rose up and turned again to the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there called on the Name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistines’ land a long season.
22 And after these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham.” Who answered, “Here I am.”
2 And He said, “Take now your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and get to the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will show you.”
3 Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him and Isaac, his son. And he split wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place which God had told him.
4 Then, the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance,
5 and said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The child and I will go yonder and worship and return to you.”
6 Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife. And they both went together.
7 Then Isaac spoke to Abraham, his father, and said, “My father.” And he answered, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Then Abraham answered, “My son, God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering.” So, they both went together.
9 And when they came to the place which God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there. And he arranged the wood and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 And Abraham, stretching forth his hand, took the knife to kill his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from Heaven, saying, “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”
12 Then he said, “Do not lay your hand upon the child, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not spared your only son for My sake.”
13 And Abraham, lifting up his eyes, looked. And behold, there was a ram behind him, caught by the horns in a bush. Then Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah Jireh (as it is said this day, “On the mount will the LORD be seen.”).
15 And the Angel of the LORD cried to Abraham from Heaven a second time,
16 and said, “I have sworn by Myself (says the LORD) because you have done this thing and have not spared your only son.
17 “Therefore, I will surely bless you, and will greatly multiply your seed, as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
18 “And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
19 Then Abraham returned to his servants; and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
20 And after these things, one told Abraham, saying, “Behold Milcah. She has also born children to your brother, Nahor:
21 Huz, his eldest son, 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 did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 And his concubine (called Reumah) also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash and Maachah.
23 And Sarah was a hundred twenty-seven years old. So long did she live.
2 Then Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (the same is Hebron, in the land of Canaan). And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
3 Then Abraham rose up from the sight of his dead and talked with the sons of Heth, saying,
4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me possession of a burial place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
5 Then the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the most chief of our sepulchers. None of us shall forbid you his sepulcher; but you may bury your dead therein.”
7 Then Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land of the children of Heth.
8 And he communed with them, saying, “If it be your mind that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron, the son of Zohar
9 that he would give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has at the end of his field. And that he would give it to me for as much money as it is worth, for a possession in which to bury among you.
10 Then Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of all the sons of Heth who went in at the gates of his city, saying,
11 “No, my Lord, hear me. I give the field to you. And I give the cave that is therein to you. In the presence of the sons of my people, I give it to you, to bury your dead.”
12 Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land,
13 and spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the country, saying, “Seeing you will give it, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Receive it from me and I will bury my dead there.”
14 Ephron then answered Abraham, saying to him,
15 “My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between me and you? Therefore, bury your dead.”
16 So Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed the silver which he had named to Ephron in the audience of the sons of Heth: four hundred silver shekels of current money among merchants.
17 So the field of Ephron (in Machpelah and over against Mamre), the field and the cave that was therein—and all the trees that were in the field which were in all the borders all around—was deeded
18 to Abraham for a possession in the sight of the sons of Heth and of all who went in at the gates of his city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah, his wife, in the cave of the field of Machpelah over against Mamre. The same is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
20 Thus the field, and the cave that is therein, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of burial by the sons of Heth.
24 Now Abraham was old and stricken in years; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 Therefore Abraham said to his eldest servant of his house (who had the rule over all that he had), “Put now your hand under my thigh;
3 and I will make you swear by the LORD God of Heaven, and God of the Earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
4 “But you shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, Isaac.”
5 And the servant said to him, “What if the woman will not come with me to this land? Shall I take your son back to the land from where you came?”
6 To whom Abraham answered, “Beware that you do not take my son there again.
7 “The LORD God of Heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land where I was born; and Who spoke to me, and Who swore to me, saying, ‘To your seed I will give this land’, He shall send His Angel before you; and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
8 “Nevertheless, if the woman will not follow you, then you shall be discharged of this, my oath. Only do not bring my son there again.”
9 Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his master, and swore to him over this matter.
10 So the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and departed (for he had all his master’s goods in his hand). So he arose and went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels lie down outside the city, by a well of water, in the evening, about the time that the women come out to draw water.
12 And he said, “O LORD God of my master Abraham, I beg You, send me good speed this day; and show mercy to my master, Abraham.
13 “Lo, I stand by the well of water while the men’s daughters of this city come out to draw water.
14 “Grant, therefore, that the maid to whom I say, ‘Please bow down your pitcher, so that I may drink’, if she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels drink’, may she be the one You have ordained for Your servant, Isaac. And thereby I shall know that You have shown mercy on my master.”
15 And now — before he had left speaking — behold, Rebekah came out (the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother) with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
16 And the maid was very fair to look upon, a virgin and unknown by man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up.
17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.”
18 And she said, “Drink, sir.” And she hurried and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink.
19 And when she had given him drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels also, until they have drunk enough.”
20 And she speedily poured out her pitcher into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water; and she drew for all his camels.
21 So the man wondered at her, and held his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
22 And when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden earring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands weighing ten shekels of gold.
23 And he said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”
24 Then she said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
25 Moreover, she said to him, “We have straw, also, and enough provision and room to lodge in.”
26 And the man bowed himself and worshipped the LORD,
27 and said, “Blessed be the LORD God of my master, Abraham; Who has not withdrawn His mercy and His truth from my master. When I was on the way, the LORD brought me to my master’s brother’s house.”
28 And the maid ran and told those of her mother’s house, according to these words.
29 Now Rebekah had a brother called Laban. And Laban ran to the man, to the well.
30 For when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “Thus said the man to me…”, then he went to the man; and lo, he stood by the camels at the well.
31 And he said, “Come in you blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside, seeing I have prepared the house and room for the camels?”
32 Then the man came into the house; and he unsaddled the camels and brought straw and provision for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the men’s feet who were with him.
33 Afterward, the food was set before him. But he said, “I will not eat until I have said my message.” And he said, “Speak on.”
34 Then he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
35 “And the LORD has blessed my master wonderfully, so that he has become great. For He has given him sheep, and cattle, and silver, and gold, and men servants, and maid servants, and camels, and donkeys.
36 “And Sarah, my master’s wife, has borne a son to my master when she was old. And to him he has given all that he has.
37 “Now my master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites (in whose land I dwell).
38 ‘But you shall go to my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.’
39 “Then I said to my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
40 “Who answered me, ‘The LORD, before Whom I walk, will send His Angel with you, and prosper your journey; and you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred and my father’s house.
41 ‘Thus shall you be discharged of my oath: If you come to my kindred and they do not give you one, you shall be free from my oath.’
42 “So I came this day to the well, and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master, Abraham, if You now prosper my journey on which I go,
43 ‘behold, I stand by the well of water when a virgin comes forth to draw water. And I say to her, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink.”
44 “And she says to me, ‘Drink, and I will also draw for your camels’, let her be the wife which the LORD has prepared for your master’s son.’
45 “And before I had made an end of speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the well, and drew water. Then I said to her, ‘Please give me drink.’
46 “And she quickly took down her pitcher from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels drink.
47 “Then I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she answered, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son (whom Milcah bore to him).’ Then I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
48 “And I bowed down and worshipped the LORD and blessed the LORD God of my master, Abraham, Who had brought me the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
49 “Now, therefore, if you will deal mercifully and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and said, “This thing has proceeded from the LORD. Therefore, we cannot say to you evil or good.
51 “Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her and go, so that she may be your master’s son’s wife, even as the LORD has said.”
52 And when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself toward the Earth, to the LORD.
53 Then the servant took forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave to Rebekah. He also gave gifts to her brother and to her mother.
54 Afterward, they ate and drank — he, and the men who were with him — and remained all night. And when they rose up in the morning, he said, “Let me depart to my master.”
55 Then her brother and her mother answered, “Let the maid remain with us at least ten days; then she shall go.”
56 But he said to them, “Do not hinder me, seeing the LORD has prospered my journey. Send me away, so that I may go to my master.”
57 Then they said, “We will call the maid and ask her consent.”
58 And they called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she answered, “I will go.”
59 So they let their sister Rebekah, and her nurse, go with Abraham’s servant and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “You are our sister. Grow into thousand thousand’s; and your seed possess the gate of his enemies.”
61 Then Rebekah arose, and her maids, and rode upon the camels, and followed the man; and the servant took Rebekah and departed.
62 Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi (for he dwelt in the South country).
63 And Isaac went out to pray in the field, toward the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, the camels came.
64 Also, Rebekah lifted up her eyes. And when she saw Isaac, she dismounted the camel.
65 (For she had said to the servant, “Who is yonder man who comes in the field to meet us?” And the servant had said, “It is my master.”) So she took a veil and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
67 Afterward, Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah, his mother. And he took Rebekah. And she was his wife. And he loved her. So, Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
25 Now Abraham had taken another wife called Keturah,
2 who bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 And Jokshan, begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
4 Also the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
5 And Abraham gave all his goods to Isaac.
6 But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac, his son (while he still lived), eastward to the east country.
7 And this is the age of Abraham’s life which he lived: a hundred seventy-five years.
8 Then Abraham yielded the spirit and died in a good age, an old man and of great years; and was gathered to his people.
9 And his sons, Isaac and Ishmael, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre
10 (which field Abraham bought from the sons of Heth), where Abraham was buried with Sarah, his wife.
11 And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer Lahai Roi.
12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian (Sarah’s handmaid) bore to Abraham.
13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, name by name, according to their kindreds: the eldest son of Ishmael, Nebajoth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16 These are the sons of Ishmael; and these are their names, by their towns and by their castles, twelve princes of their nations.
17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred thirty-seven years. And he yielded up the spirit and died and was gathered to his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur (that is towards Egypt, as you go to Asshur). Ishmael dwelt in the presence of all his brothers.
19 Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac.
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife (the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramite of Padan Aram, sister to Laban, the Aramite).
21 And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was persuaded by him; and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.
22 But the children strove together within her. Therefore, she said, “Seeing this is so, why am I like this?” So, she went to ask the LORD.
23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples shall be divided out of your core. And the one people shall be mightier than the other; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
24 Therefore, when her time of deliverance was fulfilled, behold, twins were in her womb.
25 So he who came out first was red. And he was as rough as a garment all over. And they called his name, Esau.
26 And afterward, his brother came out. And his hand held Esau by the heel. Therefore, his name was called, Jacob. Now Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah bore them.
27 And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter and lived in the fields. But Jacob was a plain man and dwelt in tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau, for venison was his meat, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Now Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the field and was weary.
30 Then Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me eat of that porridge so red, for I am weary.” Therefore, his name was called, Edom.
31 And Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright today.”
32 And Esau said, “Lo, I am almost dead. What, then, is this birthright to me?”
33 Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of today.” And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and porridge of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So, Esau despised his birthright.
26 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Therefore, Isaac went to Abimelech, King of the Philistines, to Gerar.
2 For the LORD appeared to him, and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Remain in the land which I shall show you.
3 “Dwell in this land; and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father.
4 “Also, I will cause your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed;
5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My Ordinance, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws.”
6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, “She is my sister.” For he feared to say, ‘She is my wife’, “Lest,” said he, “the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah” (for she was beautiful to the eye).
8 So, after he had been there a long time, Abimelech, King of the Philistines, looked out a window. And lo, he saw Isaac, flirting with Rebekah, his wife.
9 Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Lo, she is certainly your wife. And why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” To which Isaac answered, “Because I thought ‘It may be that I shall die for her.’”
10 Then Abimelech said, “Why have you done this to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife. So would you have brought sin upon us.”
11 Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man, or his wife, shall die the death.”
12 Afterward, Isaac sowed in that land and found in the same year a hundredfold by estimation. And so, the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man grew mightily and continued to increase, until he was exceedingly great.
14 For he had flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and a mighty household. Therefore, the Philistines envied him,
15 insomuch that the Philistines stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in his father Abraham’s time.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Get away from us. For you are a great deal mightier than we.”
17 Therefore, Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac, returning, dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham, his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the same names that his father had given them.
19 Isaac’s servants then dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.
20 But the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” Therefore, he called the name of the well “Esek”, because they strove with him.
21 Afterward, they dug another well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it “Sitnah”.
22 Then he left there and dug another well for which they did not strive. Therefore, he called the name of it “Rehoboth”, and said, “Because the LORD has now made us room, we shall increase upon the Earth.”
23 So he went up from there to Beersheba.
24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham, your father. Do not fear. I am with you and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant, Abraham’s, sake.”
25 Then he built an altar there and called upon the Name of the LORD and spread his tent there (where also Isaac’s servants had dug a well).
26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath (one of his friends), and Phichol, the captain of his army.
27 To whom Isaac said, “Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me and have put me away from you?”
28 Who answered, “We saw that the LORD was certainly with you; and we thought, ‘Let there now be an oath between us — between us and you — and let us make a covenant with you,
29 ‘that you shall do us no harm (as we have not touched you and as we have done nothing but good to you and sent you away in peace).’ You, now, are the blessed of the LORD.”
30 Then he made them a feast; and they ate and drank.
31 And they rose up early in the morning and swore, one to another. Then Isaac let them go. And they departed from him in peace.
32 And that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him of a well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
33 So he called it “Shebah”. Therefore, the name of the city is called “Beersheba” to this day.
34 Now when Esau was forty years old, he took Judith for his wife (the daughter of Beeri, a Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, a Hittite).
35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.
27 And when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim (so that he could not see), he called Esau, his eldest son, and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “I am here.”
2 Then he said, “Behold, I am now old and do not know the day of my death.
3 “Therefore, now, please take your instruments — your quiver and your bow — and get to the field, so that you may hunt food.
4 “Then make me savory meat (such as I love) and bring it to me so that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
5 Now, Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau, his son. And Esau went into the field to hunt for food, and to bring it.
6 Then, Rebekah spoke to Jacob, her son, saying, “Behold, I have heard your father talking with Esau, your brother, saying,
7 “‘Bring me food, and make me savory meat, so that I may eat and bless you before the LORD before my death.’
8 “Now, therefore, my son, hear my voice in that which I command you.
9 “Get to the flock now and bring me two good kids from the goats there, so that I may make pleasant meat from them for your father (such as he loves).
10 “Then you shall bring it to your father; and he shall eat, to the intent that he may bless you before his death.”
11 But Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, “Behold, Esau, my brother, is rough; and I am smooth.
12 “My father may possibly feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. So shall I bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”
13 But his mother said to him, “May your curse be upon me, my son. Only hear my voice; and go and bring them to me.”
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loved.
15 And Rebekah took fair clothes of her elder son, Esau, which were in her house, and clothed Jacob, her younger son.
16 And she covered his hands and the smooth of his neck with the skins of the kids of the goats.
17 Afterward, she put the pleasant meat and bread which she had prepared in the hand of her son, Jacob.
18 And when he came to his father, he said, “My father.” Who answered, “I am here. Who are you, my son?”
19 And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you bid me. Please rise. Sit up and eat my food, so that your soul may bless me.”
20 Then Isaac said to his son, “How have you found it so quickly, my son?” Who said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to my hand.”
21 Again, Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near now, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my son, Esau, or not.”
22 Then Jacob came near to Isaac, his father. And he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23 (For he did not know him because his hands were rough, as his brother Esau’s hands. Therefore, he blessed him.)
24 Again he said, “Are you my son, Esau?” Who answered, “Yes.”
25 Then he said, “Bring it here to me and I will eat of my son’s food, so that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it to him; and he ate. Also, he brought him wine; and he drank.
26 Afterward, his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.”
27 And he came near and kissed him. Then he smelled the savor of his garments and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
28 “Therefore, God give you of the dew of Heaven, and the fatness of the Earth, and plenty of wheat and wine.
29 “Let people be your servants and nations bow down to you. Be Lord over your brothers and let your mother’s children honor you. Cursed be he who curses you; and blessed be he who blesses you.”
30 And when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob had barely gone out from the presence of Isaac, his father, then Esau, his brother, came from his hunting.
31 And he also prepared savory meat and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s food, so that your soul may bless me.”
32 But his father, Isaac, said to him, “Who are you?” And he answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who and where is he who hunted food and brought it to me; and I have eaten of all before you came? And I have blessed him; therefore, he shall be blessed.”
34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great cry and bitter, out of measure, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, my father.”
35 Who answered, “Your brother came with subtlety and has taken away your blessing.”
36 Then he said, “Was he not justly called “Jacob”? For he has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright; and lo, now has he taken my blessing.” Also, he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Then Isaac answered, and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord; and I have made all his brothers his servants. And I have furnished him with wheat and wine. And what now shall I do for you, my son?”
38 Then Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me; me, also, my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac, his father, answered, and said to him, “Behold, the fatness of the Earth shall be your dwelling place, and you shall have of the dew of Heaven from above.
40 “And by your word you shall live and shall be your brother’s servant. But it shall come to pass, when you shall get restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
41 Therefore Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau thought in his mind, “The days of mourning for my father will come shortly. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”
42 And the words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother, Esau, is comforting himself by plotting to kill you.
43 “Now therefore my son, hear my voice. Arise and flee to Haran, to my brother Laban,
44 “and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fierceness is assuaged,
45 “and until your brother’s wrath turns away from you and he forget the things which you have done to him. Then I will send and take you from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day?”
46 Also, Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be?”
28 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2 “Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and there take a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 “And God All Sufficient bless you and make you increase and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of people,
4 “and give you the blessing of Abraham—to you and to your seed with you—so that you may inherit the land wherein you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”
5 Thus, Isaac sent forth Jacob; and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 Now, Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Padan Aram to fetch a wife from there, and given him a charge when he blessed him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
8 Also, Esau, seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac, his father,
9 then went to Ishmael and added to the wives which he had Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 Now Jacob departed from Beersheba and went to Haran,
11 And he came to a place and stayed there all night because the Sun was down. And he took from the stones of the place and laid them under his head and slept in the same place.
12 Then he dreamed; and behold, there stood a ladder upon the Earth. And the top of it reached up to Heaven. And lo, the angels of God went up and down by it.
13 And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. The land upon the which you sleep I will give you and your seed.
14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the Earth; and you shall spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your seed shall all the families of the Earth be blessed.
15 “And lo, I am with you and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you back into this land. For I will not forsake you until I have performed that which I have promised you.”
16 Then Jacob awoke out of his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place; and I was not aware.”
17 And he was afraid, and said, “How fearful is this place! This is none other but the House of God; and this is the Gate of Heaven.”
18 Then Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place “Bethel”. But the name of that city was at the first called “Luz”.
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