Sarai's name changed. their God. k GENESIS, XVIII. 9 T And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after k Ex.6.7. thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the's flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token 7 of the covenant betwixt me and you. Jer.24.7. Eze.37.23. Rev.21.3. 1 Ac.7.8. Rom.4.11. a son of eight days. m Ex.12.44. n Ex.4.24. Jos.5.2,&c. Abraham circumcised. his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 21 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreski 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son. 27 And all the men of his house, 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born m in the house, or bought with money of 6 i. e. Prin- born in the house, and bought with any stranger, which is not of thy seed. cess. 13 He that is born in thy house, o ch.18.10. 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 man child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off n from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 15 T And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but ❝Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, o and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will she shall become nations. p ch. 18.12. 21.6. q ch.25.13, &c. r ch.21.2. money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 Abraham entertaineth three angels. 17 Sodom's destruction revealed to Abraham: 23 his intercession. ND the LORD appeared unto A him in the a plains of Mamre: and 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 b stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now 1 have found favour in thy sight, c bless her, and 7 she shall be a mo- (CHAP. 18.) pass not away, I pray thee, from ther of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, p 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, O that Ishmael might live before thee! a ch.13.18. 14.13. b ch.19.1. c Heb. 13.2. 1 Pet.4.9. d ch.43.24. 1 stay. 2 ye have passed. 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have 3 hasten. heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, e Ju.5.25. and will multiply him exceedingly q twelve princes shall he beget; and I will make him a great nation. f ver. 14. 2 Ki.4.16. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time ring ch. 17. 19, the next year. 22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 21. Rom.9.9. Gal.4.23. 23 T And Abraham took. Ishmael 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, 3Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And he took butter, e and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee ƒ according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah gthy wife shall have a son. And Sarah Abraham intercedes for Sodom. GENESIS, XIX. heard it in the tent door, which B. C. 1898. was behind him. His request promised. 26 And the LORD said, b If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place Heb.11.11, for their sakes. 12. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah wereh Rom.4.19. h old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah i after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah k laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed / old shall I have pleasure, my m lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? i ch.31.35. k ch.21.6. Mat. 19.26. 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? n At the time appointed o2 Ki.4.16. I will return unto thee, according P Ps.44.21. to the time of life, o 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. p 16 T And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. q 17 And the LORD said, Shall I r hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Pr. 12.19. q Ac. 15.3.. Ro.15.24. 3Juo.6. r Ps.25.14. An.3.7. t Juo. 15.15. s ch.12.3. 22.18. De.4.9, 10. 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be s blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will u 1 Sam.2.30. command his children t and his v ch. 13. 13. household after him, and they shall 19.13. keep the way of the LORD, to do w ch.11.5. justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.u 20 And the LORD said, Because the v cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is. very grievous; 21 I will go down w now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, r I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Ex.3.8. x Jos.22.22. Ps. 139.1. z Nu. 16.22. 34.17. Ps.58.11. 94.2. b Is. 10.22. Jer.5.1. Eze.22.30. c Job 4.19. d Ju.6.39. 23 And Abraham y drew near, and said, Wilt z thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou e Job 33.23. also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are (CHAP.19.) therein? a ch.18.22. 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righ-b Heb. 13.2. teous with the wicked and that c Lv.24.28. the righteous should be as the! d ch.18.8. wicked, that be far from thee: a Shall not the Judge of all the earth e Ju. 19.22. do right? 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am c 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, if I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 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 forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, 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 now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: d Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. e 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them, rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn bin, 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 ways. And they said, Nay; cbut we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; d and he made them a feast, 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, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? e bring them out unto us, that we may know them. Lot fleeth from Sodom. GENESIS, XIX. 6 And Lot went out at the door B. C. 1898. unto them, and shut the door after him, 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.f f Lev. 18.22. 20.13. De.23.17. Rom, 1.21. 1 Cor.6.9 Jude 7. 11. 5 Rom.3.8. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out 1 unto you, gand do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore cameh Ex.2.14. they under the shadow of my roof. 2 Pet.2.7,8. 9 And they said, Stand back. And i 2 Ki.6.18. they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, hand 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 came near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled 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 so that they wearied themselves to i blindness, both small and great find the door. 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonin-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: Ac. 13.11. k ch.18.20. 11 Ch.21.15. Is.36.10. mNum. 16.26 Jer.51.6. -Rev. 18.4. n Ex.9.21. 2 Ch.36.16. Is.28.22. Lu. 17.28. 24.11. 2 or, punishare found. ment. o Ps.34.12. Rom.9.16. p 1 Sa. 19.11. 1 Ki. 19.3. q ver.26. r1 Ti. 1.14. Sodom destroyed. hast r magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, s lest some evil take me, and I die: 20 Behold now this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: t Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one ?) and my soul shall live.u 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted 3 thee v concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the 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 4 Zoar. 23 The sun was 5 risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 21 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, which grew y upon the ground. and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became za pillar of salt. 27 F And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where a he stood before the LORD: 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the 13 For we will destroy this place, because the k cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; 1 Sam.27.1. land of the plain, and beheld, and, and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which inarried his daughters, and said, m Up, get ye out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked n unto his sons-in-law. 15 T And when the morning arose, t Pr.3.5-7. u Ps. 119.175. 3 Is.55.3. thy face. ch.4.7. Job.42.8,9. Jer. 14.10. ch.32.26. Ex.32.10. Deut.9.14. Mark 6.5, 4 i. e. little. w x De.29.23. lo, the smoke of the country went up as the b smoke of a furnace. 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, cwhen he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the dmountain, and his two daughters with him, for he then the angels hastened Lot, says gone forth. feared to dwell in Zoar: and he ing, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the 2 iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, 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 merciful o unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape p for thy life: q look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the piain; 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 Job 18.15. Ps. 107.31. z Lu. 17.32. a ch. 18.22. Rev. 19.3. c Ps. 145.20. d ver. 17, 19, e Pr.23.31 33. dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto 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 preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: eand the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 31 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us Moab and Ammon born. GENESIS, XX, XXI. Sarah restored. make him drink wine this night al-| B. C. 1897. [unto me that ought not to be done. so; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of ƒ Lev. 18.6,7. our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. f 37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites gunto this day. 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the h children of Ammon unto this day. CHAPTER XX. Abraham denieth his wife, and looseth her: 14 Abimelech restoreth her. g Hab.2.15. De.2.9.19. h Ne. 13.1. (CHAP. 20.) 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 11 And Abraham said, Because 1 thought, Surely the fear of God m is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 12 And yet indeed she is my n sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, 1 married to He is my brother. c ch.12.13. 26.7. d Job 33.15. Ps. 105. 14. an hus- e 1Chr.21.17. 2 14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto AND Abraham journeyed from or simpli Abraham, and restored him Saran toward coun try, and dwelled between Kadesh and a Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. b city, or 2 Cor. 1.12. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She c is my sister: and Abi-5 ch.31.7. melech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 3 But d God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is 1 a man's wife. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, e wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the 2 integrity f of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 35.5. Job.42.8. Jos.7.25. I ch.34.7. 3 as is good eyes. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; P Pr. 12.1. for I also g withheld thee from sinning hagainst me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 25.12. q ch.12.17. 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and (CHAP. 21.) he ishall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her a 1 Sam.2.21. not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. Lu.1.68. b ch.17.19. 18.10, 14. c Heb.11.11. 8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his d ch.17.19. servants, and told all these things e Ex. 12.48. in their ears: and the men were Lev. 12.3. Ac.7.8. sore afraid. 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, omy land is before thee: dwell 3 where it pleaseth thee. 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was preproved. 17 So Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. CHAPTER XXI. 2 Isaac is born. 9 Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth. 22 Abimelech's covenant with Abraham. ND the LORD a visited Sarah as A he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as b he had spoken. 2 For Sarah c conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, d Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him. e 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, f so that all that hear will laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have 9 Then Abimelech called Abra-f Ps. 126.2. ham, and said unto him, What hast Is.54.1. thou done unto us? and what have g Nu.23.23.g said unto Abraham, that Sarah I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom ka great sin? thou hast done deeds Ps.86.10. should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. h ch.16.1,15. Abimelech's covenant. according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 8 And the child grew, and was B. C. 1897. | son, nor with my son's son: but weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Ha-i Gal.4.30. gar the Egyptian, h which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: i for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. k ch.17.18. Rom.9.7,8. Heb, 11.18. m ver. 18. ch. 16.10. n Jno.8.35. 11 And the thing was very griev-o Ex.3.7. ous in Abraham's sight, k because p Ps. 107.4-6. of his son. 12 T And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for lin Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a m nation, because he is thy seed. q ver. 13. r Num.22.31. sch.17.20. t ch.25.27. u Nu. 10.12. 14 And Abraham rose up early in v ch.24.4. the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto 27.46. Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, w ch.26.28. and the child, and sent n her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 28.15. Jo.1.5,9. Jos.2.12. 15 And the water was spent in the ch.24.3. bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 1 if thou shalt lie y ch.26.15 22. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. 17 And o God heard the voice of z ch.31.44. the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and a ch.33.8. said unto her, What aileth thee, bch.31.48, Hagar? fear not; p for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for q I will make him a great nation. 1 Sam. 18.3. 52. Jos.22.27. 2 i. e. the well of the oath. ch.26.33. 3 or, tree, c De 16.21. 19 And God opened her reyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with JV.3.7. water, and gave the lad drink. 2 Ki. 17.16. 20 And God was with the lad; sd ch.4.26. and he grew, and dwelt in the wil-e Ps.90.2. derness, and became an archer. t 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: u and his mother v took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee win all that thou doest: Is.40.28. (CHAP. 22.) Pr. 17.3. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants y had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it but to-day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them z made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewelambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, a What mean these seven ewelambs, which thou hast set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a bwitness unto me, that I have digged this well. 31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; 2 because there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33 And Abraham planted a 3grove c in Beer-sheba, and d called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. e 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. CHAPTER XXII. 1 Abraham, offering Isaac, 11 is stayed by an angel: 15 he is blessed again. A ND it came to pass, after these things that God did tempt a Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, 'Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of b Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham me.lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 23 Now therefore a swear unto 1 behold me here by God that thou wilt not b 2 Chr.3.1. deal falsely with me, nor with my 5 And Abraham said unto his |