Chapter 11
{11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {11:4}
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth. {11:5} And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
{11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one,
and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined to do. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off to build the city. {11:9} Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
{11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was]
an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
the flood: {11:11} And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad
five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:12}
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
{11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
{11:14} And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
{11:15} And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:16} And
Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: {11:17}
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:18} And Peleg
lived thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} And Peleg lived
after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat
sons and daughters. {11:20} And Reu lived two and thirty
years, and begat Serug: {11:21} And Reu lived after he
begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters. {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and
begat Nahor: {11:23} And Serug lived after he begat Nahor
two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:24}
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
{11:25} And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred
and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:26}
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran.
{11:27} Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
{11:28} And Haran died before his father Terah in the land
of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. {11:29} And Abram
and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife
[was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of
Iscah. {11:30} But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
{11:31} And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of
Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son
Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there. {11:32} And the days of Terah
were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Chapter 12
{12:1} Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s
house, unto a land that I will shew thee: {12:2} And I will
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: {12:3} And I
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
{12:4} So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and
five years old when he departed out of Haran. {12:5} And
Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
{12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite
[was] then in the land. {12:7} And the LORD appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and
there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared
unto him. {12:8} And he removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
[having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there
he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the
name of the LORD. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south.
{12:10} And there was a famine in the land: and Abram
went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was]
grievous in the land. {12:11} And it came to pass, when he
was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai
his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to
look upon: {12:12} Therefore it shall come to pass, when
the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his
wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
{12:13} Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be
well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of
thee.{12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was]
very fair. {12:15} The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh’s house. {12:16} And he entreated Abram well
for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and
menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
{12:17} And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. {12:18}
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that]
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
[was] thy wife? {12:19} Why saidst thou, She [is] my
sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now
therefore behold thy wife, take [her,] and go thy way.
{12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning
him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.
Chapter 13
{13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his
wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
{13:2} And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold. {13:3} And he went on his journeys from the south
even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Hai; {13:4} Unto the place
of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there
Abram called on the name of the LORD.
{13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,
and herds, and tents. {13:6} And the land was not able to
bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
{13:7} And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. {13:8}
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we [be] brethren. {13:9} [Is] not the whole
land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if
[thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if
[thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
{13:10} And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain
of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the
garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest
unto Zoar. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the one from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled
in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom. {13:13} But the
men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.{13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
from the place where thou art northward, and southward,
and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
{13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then]
shall thy seed also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk
through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then Abram removed
[his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which
[is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Chapter 14
{14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king
of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of nations; {14:2} [That these] made
war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of
Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. {14:3} All
these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea. {14:4} Twelve years they served
Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
{14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and
the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims
in Shaveh Kiriathaim, {14:6} And the Horites in their
mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness.
{14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which
[is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites,
and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar. {14:8}
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they
joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; {14:9} With
Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five. {14:10} And the vale of
Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain. {14:11} And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their
way. {14:12} And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son,
who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
{14:13} And there came one that had escaped, and told
Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the
Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these
[were] confederate with Abram. {14:14} And when Abram
heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his
trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan. {14:15} And he
divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is]
on the left hand of Damascus. {14:16} And he brought back
all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and
his goods, and the women also, and the people.
{14:17} And the king of Sodom went out to meet him
after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of
the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh,
which [is] the king’s dale. {14:18} And Melchizedek king
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the
priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him,
and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God,
possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} And blessed be the
most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the king
of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take
the goods to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of
Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most
high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23} That I
will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I
will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest
say, I have made Abram rich: {14:24} 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.
Chapter 15
{15:1} 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. {15:2} And
Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine
heir. {15:4} And, behold, the word of the LORD [came]
unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that
shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
{15:5} And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look
now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to
number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
{15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to
him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I [am]
the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to
give thee this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord
GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? {15:9}
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. {15:10} And he
took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
not. {15:11} And when the fowls came down upon the
carcases, Abram drove them away. {15:12} And when the
sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he
said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years; {15:14} And
also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance. {15:15}
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of
the Amorites [is] not yet full. {15:17} And it came to pass,
that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between
those pieces. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given
this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates: {15:19} The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Chapter 16
{16:1} Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children:
and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was]
Hagar. {16:2} And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the
LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in
unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} And
Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
{16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived:
and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes. {16:5} And Sarai said unto Abram,
My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
{16:6} But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in
thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
{16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur. {16:8} And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she
said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. {16:9} And
the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
{16:11} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold,
thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
{16:12} And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be]
against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and
he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. {16:13}
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her,
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me? {16:14} Wherefore the well was
called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and
Bered.{16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called
his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And
Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
Chapter 17
{17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the
Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. {17:2}
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and
will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on
his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for
me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a
father of many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any
more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for
a father of many nations have I made thee. {17:6} And I
will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to
be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I
will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
{17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations. {17:10} 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. {17:11} And ye
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he
that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house,
or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy
seed. {17:13} 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.
{17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
{17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy
wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall]
her name [be. ]{17:16} And I will bless her, and give thee a
son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a
mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her. {17:17}
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?
{17:18} And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee! {17:19} 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. {17:20}
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will
make him a great nation. {17:21} But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking
with him, and God went up from Abraham.
{17:23} And Abraham took Ishmael 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. {17:24} And Abraham
[was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son
[was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the selfsame day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And all
the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
Chapter 18
{18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
{18:2} And he lift 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 toward the
ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy
servant: {18:4} Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5}
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
{18:6} And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead [it,] and make cakes upon the hearth. {18:7} And
Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it. {18:8} And he took butter, 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.
{18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy
wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said,
I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life;
and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
[it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him. {18:11} Now
Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age;
[and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
{18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being
old also? {18:13} And the LORD said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a
child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard for the
LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
{18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
{18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked
toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them
on the way. {18:17} And the LORD said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18} Seeing that
Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
{18:19} For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of
the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
{18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
{18:21} I will go down now, and see whether they have
done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
unto me; and if not, I will know. {18:22} And the men
turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked? {18:24} Peradventure there be
fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?
{18:25} That be far from thee to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the
Judge of all the earth do right? {18:26} And the LORD
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I
will spare all the place for their sakes. {18:27} And
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and
ashes: {18:28} 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. ]{18:29} 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. {18:30} 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. {18:31} 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. {18:32} And he
said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but
this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he
said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. {18:33} And the
LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Chapter 19
{19:1} And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up
to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward
the ground; {19:2} And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn
in, 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; but we will abide in the
street all night. {19:3} And he pressed upon them greatly;
and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and
he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and
they did eat.{19:4} 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: {19:5}
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are]
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them. {19:6} And Lot went out
at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, {19:7}
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8}
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; for therefore came they under the shadow of my
roof. {19:9} And they said, Stand back. And they said
[again,] 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 came near to break the door. {19:10} But the men put
forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and
shut to the door. {19:11} 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.
{19:12} And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this
place: {19:13} For we will destroy this place, because the
cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD;
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. {19:14} And Lot
went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the
LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
{19:15} 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. {19:16} 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 unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.{19:17} And it came to pass, when they 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. {19:18} And Lot said
unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: {19:19} 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
some evil take me, and I die: {19:20} 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.
{19:21} And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken. {19:22} Haste thee,
escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come
thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
{19:23} The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot
entered into Zoar. {19:24} Then the LORD rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
LORD out of heaven; {19:25} And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground.
{19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and
she became a pillar of salt.
{19:27} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the
place where he stood before the LORD: {19:28} And he
looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
{19:29} 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 he overthrew
the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
{19:30} 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. {19:31} 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: {19:32}
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33}
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it
came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the
younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us
make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and]
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
{19:35} 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.
{19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by
their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called
his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites
unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son,
and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of
the children of Ammon unto this day.
Chapter 20
{20:1} And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the
south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and
sojourned in Gerar. {20:2} And Abraham said of Sarah his
wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent,
and took Sarah. {20:3} But 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]
a man’s wife. {20:4} But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
{20:5} Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she,
even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of
my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
{20:6} And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I
thee not to touch her. {20:7} Now therefore restore the man
[his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee,
and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou
that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine.
{20:8} Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears:
and the men were sore afraid. {20:9} Then Abimelech
called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done
unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. {20:10} And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this thing? {20:11} And Abraham said, Because I
thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and
they will slay me for my wife’s sake. {20:12} And yet
indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father,
but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife. {20:13} 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, He [is] my brother.
{20:14} And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto
Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. {20:15} And
Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell
where it pleaseth thee. {20:16} 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
reproved.{20:17} So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they
bare [children. ]{20:18} For the LORD had fast closed up
all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah
Abraham’s wife.
