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Genesis 12

 1And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of they father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

    2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

    3I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:

    4So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

    5And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

    6Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

    7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

    8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

    9And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

    10And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

    11And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

    12And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

    13Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

    14And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

    15And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

    16And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he asses, and menservants and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

    17But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife.

    19For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

    20And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

   

Genesis 13

 1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

    2And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

    3And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai:

    4In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon the name of the Lord.

    5But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

    6Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

    7Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.

    8Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

    9Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.

    10And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

    11And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

    12Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.

    13And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure.

    14And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.

    15All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

    16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

    17Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

    18So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

   

Genesis 14

 1And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations,

    2Made war against Bara king of Sodom, and against Bersa king of Gomorrha, and against Sennaab king of Adama, and against Semeber king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.

    3All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.

    4For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him.

    5And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.

    6And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.

    7And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

    8And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor, went out: and they set themselves against them in battle array in the woodland vale:

    9To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five.

    10Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs and were overthrown there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.

    11And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:

    12And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.

    13And behold one that had escaped told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made league with Abram.

    14Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.

    15And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night: and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

    16And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also the people.

    17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king's vale.

    18But Melchisedech the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,

    19Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.

    20And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands. And he gace him the tithes of all.

    21And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.

    22And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,

    23That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say I have enriched Abram:

    24Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares of the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take their shares.

   

Genesis 15

 1Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

    2And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.

    3And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir.

    4And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.

    5And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

    6Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

    7And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

    8But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

    9And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.

    10And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not.

    11And the fowls came down upon carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

    12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

    13And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

    14But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

    15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

    16But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

    17And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.

    18That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

    19The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

    20And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,

    21And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanits, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

   

Genesis 16

 1Now Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

    2She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

    3She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

    4And he went in to her. But she, perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

    5And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.

    6And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her its it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

    7And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

    8He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

    9And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.

    10And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

    11And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

    12He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.

    13And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.

    14Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Bared.

    15And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.

    16Abram was fourscore and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.

   

Genesis 17

 1And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

    2And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

    3Abram tell flat on his face.

    4And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many nations.

    5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

    6And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

    8And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

    9Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

    10This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

    11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.

    12An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:

    13And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

    14The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

    15God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

    16And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

    17Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

    18And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

    19And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

    20And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

    21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

    22And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

    23And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

    24Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

    25And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

    27And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.

    28The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

   

Genesis 18

 1And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

   

Genesis 18

 1and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?

    2And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near him: and as soon as he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.

    3And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant:

    4But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.

    5And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.

    6Abraham made haste into the tent to Sera, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.

    7And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man: who made haste and boiled it.

    8He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.

    9And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo, she is in the tent.

    10And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying and Sara thy wife shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

    11Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.

    12And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old

    13And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sera laugh, saying: Shall I who am an old woman bear a child indeed ?

    14Is there any thing hard to God? according to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

    15Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said, Nay: but thou didst laugh:

    16And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.

    17And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:

    18"Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?

    19For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

    20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

    21I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know.

    22And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.

    23And drawing nigh he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

    24If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

    25Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

    26And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

    27And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

    28What if there be Ave less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

    29And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.

    30Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I And thirty there.

    31Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.

    32I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if tell should be found there ? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

    33And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.

   

Genesis 19

 1And the two angels came to Sodom ii in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,

    2And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.

    3He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come in to his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread and they ate:

    4But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house both young and old, all the people together.

    5And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither that we may know them:

    6Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:

    7no not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

    8I have two daughters who as yet have not known man : I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

    9But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. 0 And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

    10And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door:

    11And them that were without, p they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

    12And they said to Lot: Hast thou here ally of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:

    13For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

    14So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said : Arise : get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

    15And when it was- morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.

    16And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.

    17And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying : Save thy life : look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

    18And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,

    19Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die :

    20There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

    21And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

    22Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

    23The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.

    24And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

    25And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

    26And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.

    27And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord, U

    28He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

    29Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

    30And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Segor,) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

    31And the elder said to the younger Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.

    32Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

    33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in and lay with her father : but he perceived not neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

    34And the next day the elder said to the younger : Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.

    35They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.

    36the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

    37And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

    38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

   

Genesis 20

 1Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cedes and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

    2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Oerara sent, and took her.

    3And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

    4Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said : Lord, wilt thou slay a nation, that is ignorant and justl

    5Did not he say to me : She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.

    6And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

    7Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thins.

    8And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid.

    9And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do.

    10And again he expostulated with him, and said, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?

    11Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

    12Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

    13And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: I Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.

    14And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara, his wife.

    16And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

    16And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.

    17And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

    18For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on ac- count of Sara, Abraham's wife.

   

Genesis 21

 1And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

    2And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

    3And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

    4And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

    5When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father was Isaac born.

    6And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.

    7And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age.

    8And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

    9And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:

    10Cast out this bondwoman, and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

    11Abraham took this grievously for his son.

    12And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

    13But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

    14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

    15And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

    16And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

    17And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

    18Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great nation.

    19And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

    20And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.

    21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

    22At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

    23Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

    24And Abraham said: I will swear.

    25And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

    26And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

    27And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

    28And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.

    29And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

    30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

    31Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.

    32And they made a league for the well of oath.

    33And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

    34And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.

   

Genesis 22

 1After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

    2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for a holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.

    3So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

    4And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.

    5And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.

    6And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,

    7Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?

    8And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.

    9And they came to the place which God had shown him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

    10And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

    11And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

    12And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

    13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

    14And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.

    15And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:

    16By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

    17I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

    18And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

    19Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

    20After these things, it was told Abraham that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

    21Hus the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,

    22And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,

    23And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: These eight did Melcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother.

    24And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.

   

Genesis 23

 1And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.

    2And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

    3And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

    4I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead.

    5The children of Heth answered, saying:

    6My Lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principle sepulchers: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulcher.

    7Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth:

    8And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

    9That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a buryingplace.

    10Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

    11Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.

    12Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,

    13And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field: take it, and so I will bury my dead in it.

    14And Ephron answered:

    15My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.

    16And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver of common current money.

    17And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof in all its limits round about,

    18Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

    19And so Abraham buried Sara his wife, in a double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

    20And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.

   

Genesis 24

 1Now Abraham was old; and advanced in age: and the Lord had blessed him in all things.

    2And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

    3That I may make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

    4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

    5The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place, from whence thou camest out?

    6And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

    7The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.

    8But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath; only bring not my son back thither again.

    9The servant therefore put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and swore to him upon this word.

    10And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forth and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

    11And when he had made the camels lie down without the town near a well of water in Evening, at the time when women were wont to come out to draw water, he said:

    12O Lord the God of my master Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

    13Behold I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water.

    14Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this I shall understand, that thou hast shown kindness to my master.

    15he had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

    16An exceedingly comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher and was coming back.

    17And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

    18And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.

    19And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

    20And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water: and having drawn she gave to all the camels.

    21But he musing beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

    22And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles: and as many bracelets of ten sicles weight.

    23And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?

    24And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

    25And she said moreover to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.

    26The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,

    27Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

    28Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house, all that she had heard.

    29And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

    30And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying: Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,

    31And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord: why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.

    32And he brought him in into his lodging: and he unharnessed the camels and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.

    33And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.

    34And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:

    35And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, menservants and womenservants, camels and asses.

    36And Sara my master's wife hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.

    37And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:

    38But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

    39But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with me?

    40The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father's house.

    41But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.

    42And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,

    43Behold I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher:

    44And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for my master's son.

    45And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink.

    46And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels.

    47And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.

    48And falling down I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

    49Wherefore if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.

    50And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord, we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

    51Behold Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.

    52WHich when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground he adored the Lord.

    53And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother.

    54And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

    55And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay at least ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.

    56Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.

    57And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.

    58And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.

    59So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company,

    60Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands, and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

    61So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master.

    62At the same time Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country.

    63And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.

    64Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,

    65And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.

    66And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

    67Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

   

Genesis 25

 1And Abraham married another wife, named Cetura:

    2Who bore to him Zamran, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.

    3Jecsan also begot Saba and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomin.

    4But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.

    5And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac.

    6And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

    7And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

    8And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

    9And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre;

    10Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.

    11And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living and seeing.

    12These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:

    13And these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam.

    14And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

    15Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

    16These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

    17And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.

    18And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

    19These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

    20Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

    21And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

    22But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

    23And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

    24And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

    25He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

    26Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

    27And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.

    28Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

    29And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

    30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

    31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

    32He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me.

    33Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

    34And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.