Abraham
In
The Same Day God Made a Covenant With Abram Saying - To Thy
Seed Have I Given
This
Land - From The River
of Egypt to The Great River to the River Euphrates.
Then
Lot Chose Him All The Plain - Lot
journeyed east and they separated themselves the one from the
other.
Abram Dwelled - in The Land.
Lot
Dwelled In The Cities Of The Plain -
and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
The Men Of Sodom Were Wicked - and sinners
before God exceedingly.
God
Said To 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.
For
All The Land -
that thou seest to thee will I give it to Thy Seed For Ever.
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.
Arise Walk Through The
Land
- in the length of it and in the breadth of it for I will give
it to thee.
Abram Removed His Tent - and came and
dwelt in The Plain Of Mamre that
is in Hebron.
Altar
- Abram Built There - An
Altar to God.
In Days Of Amraphel King Of Shinar - Arioch King of Ellasar
Chedorlaomer King of Elam and Tidal King of Nations.
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 King of Bela that is Zoar.
All These Were Joined Together In The
Vale Of Siddim - that is the salt sea.
Twelve Years They Served Chedorlaomer - in the thirteenth year
they rebelled.
In Fourteenth Year Came Chedorlaomer and Kings - that were with
him and
Smote
The Rephaims - In Ashteroth Karnaim and Zuzims in Ham and Emins
in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
The
Horites In Their Mount Seir - to Elparan that is by The
Wilderness.
They
Returned and Came To Enmishpat - that is Kadesh and smote all
the Country of the Amalekites also the Amorites that dwelt in
Hazezontamar.
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
With Chedorlaomer King Of Elam - and with Tidal King of Nations
and Amraphel King of Shinar and Arioch King of Ellasar four
Kings with five.
The Vale Of Siddim - was full of
slimepits.
Kings
Of Sodom and Gomorrah Fled - and fell there they that remained
fled to The Mountain.
They Took All The Goods Of Sodom and Gomorrah
- and all their victuals and went their way.
They Took Lot Abram's Brother's Son Who Dwelt In Sodom
- and his goods and departed.
The Hebrew - There
came One that had escaped - and told Abram of The
Hebrew.
For
He Dwelt - On The Plain Of Mamre or Manly.
Amorite
Brother Of Eshcol - and brother of Aner were confederate with
Abram.
When Abram Heard His Brother Was Taken Captive - he armed his
trained servants born in his own house three hundred and eighteen
and pursued them to Dan.
He Divided Himself Against Them He and His Servants - by night
and smote them and pursued them to Hobah that is on the left
hand of Damascus.
He Brought Back All The Goods - also brought again his Brother
Lot and his goods and the Women and The People.
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 that is
The King's Vale.
Melchizedek King Of Salem - brought forth bread and vine he
was The Priest Of The Most High God.
He Blessed Him and Said - Blessed Be Abram Of The Most High
God possessor of Heaven and Earth.
Blessed Be The Most High God - that hath delivered thine enemies
into thy hand he gave him Tithes of all.
The King Of Sodom Said To Abram - Give Me the persons and take
the goods to thyself.
Abram Said To the King of Sodom - I have lift up mine hand to
God Most High God Possessor Of Heaven and Earth.
That I Will Not Take From A Thread - even to a shoe latchet
that I will not take any thing that is thine lest thou shouldest
say I have made Abram rich
Save Only That The Young Men Have Eaten - and the portion of
the Men that went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre let them take
their portion.
After These Things - The Word of God
- Came To Abram in a Vision Saying Fear Not Abram I Am Thy Shield
and Thy Exceeding Great Reward.
Abram Said God What Wilt Thou Give Me - Seeing I Go Childless
The Steward Of My House is this Eliezer of Damascus ?
Abram Said Behold To Me - thou hast given no seed and lo One
born in My House is Mine Heir.
Behold The Word of God Came To Him
Saying - This Shall Not Be Thine Heir
but He that shall come
forth out of thine own Woman Shall Be
Thine Heir.
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
to him So Shall Thy Seed Be.
He
Believed In God - he counted it to Him for Righteousness.
He Said To Him I Am God - that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees.
To
Give Thee This Land To Inherit
It.
He
Said God Whereby Shall I Know - That I Shall Inherit It ?
He Said To Him - take a heifer of three years old a she goat
of three years old a ram of three years old a turtledove and
a young pigeon.
He
Took To Him All These and Divided Them In The Midst - and laid
each piece one against another the birds divided he not.
When
The Fowls Came Down - upon the carcases Abram drove them away.
When The Sun Was Going Down - a deep sleep fell upon Abram and
lo an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
He
Said To Abram Know Of A Surety - that thy seed shall be a Stranger
in a Land that is not their's and
shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years
Also That Nation Whom They Shall Serve Will I Judge - and afterward
shall they come out with great substance.
Thou Shalt Go To Thy Fathers In Peace - thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.
In
The Fourth Generation - they shall come hither again for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
When The Sun Went Down It Was Dark Behold - a smoking furnace
and a burning lamp passed between those pieces.
In The Same Day God Made A Covenant With Abram - Saying To Thy
Seed have I given This
Land from the river of Egypt
to the great river the river Euphrates.
Kenites and Kenizzites - Kadmonites Hittites Perizzites Rephaims
Amorites Canaanites Girgashites and the Jebusites.
Sarai Abram's Wife - bare him no Children she had an handmaid
an Egyptian whose name was Hagar.
Sarai
Said To Abram - Behold Now God Hath Restrained Me from bearing
I Pray Thee go in to My Maid it may be that I may obtain Children
by her.
Abram
Hearkened To - The Voice Of Sarai.
Sarai Abram's Wife - took Hagar her Maid the Egyptian after
Abram had dwelt ten years in The
Land and gave her to her Husband Abram to be his
Wife.
He Went In To Hagar She Conceived - When She Saw That She Had
Conceived Her Mistress Was Despised In Her Eyes.
Sarai Said To Abram - My Wrong Be Upon Thee I Have Given My
Maid Into Thy bosom.
When
She Saw That - She Had Conceived I Was Despised In Her Eyes
God Judge Between Me and Thee.
Abram Said To Sarai - Behold Thy Maid is in Thine hand do to
her as it pleaseth Thee.
When
Sarai Dealt Hardly With Her - She Fled From Her Face.
Angel
Of God Found Her By A Fountain Of Water
in The Wilderness - By The Fountain
In The Way to Shur.
He
Said Hagar - Sarai's Maid whence camest thou and whither wilt
thou go ?
She
Said I Flee - From The Face Of My Mistress Sarai.
The
Angel Of God Said To Her - Return To
Thy Mistress and Submit Thyself Under Her Hands.
Angel
Of God Said To Her
- I Will Multiply Thy Seed Exceedingly That It Shall Not Be
Numbered For Multitude.
The
Angel Of God Said To Her - Behold Thou Art With Child.
Shalt
Bear A Son - and shalt call his name Ishmael Because God Hath
Heard Thy Affliction.
He Will Be A Wild Man - His Hand Will Be Against Every Man and
Every Man's Hand Against Him He Shall Dwell In The Presence
Of All His Brethren.
She Called The Name Of God - That Spake To Her.
Thou God Seest Me - For She Said Have I Also Here Looked After
Him That Seeth Me ?
Wherefore The Well Was Called Beer Lahairoi - Behold it is between
Kadesh and Bered.
Hagar
Bare Abram A Son - Abram Called His Son's Name That Hagar Bare
Ishmael.
Abram
Was - fourscore and six years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to
Abram.
When Abram Was - ninety nine years old God appeared to Abram
and Said To Him.
I
Am The Almighty God - Walk Before
Me and Be Thou Perfect.
I Will Make My Covenant - Between Me and Thee and Will Multiply
Thee Exceedingly.
Abram
Fell On His Face - and God Talked With Him Saying.
As
For Me Behold - My Covenant Is With Thee and Thou Shalt Be a
Father of Many Nations.
Neither
Shall Thy Name - Any More Be Called Abram.
Thy
Name Shall Be Abraham - For a Father Of Many Nations Have I
Made Thee.
I
Will Make Thee Exceeding Fruitful - and I Will Make Nations
Of Thee and Kings Shall Come Out Of Thee.
I Will Establish My Covenant Between Me and Thee and Thy Seed
- After Thee In Their Generations.
For
An Everlasting Covenant - To Be God To Thee and To Thy Seed
After Thee.
I Will Give To Thee and To Thy Seed -
After Thee The Land.
Wherein
Thou Art -
a stranger.
All The Land - For
An Everlasting Possession I Will Be Their God.
God Said To Abraham - Thou Shalt Keep My Covenant Therefore
Thou and Thy Seed After Thee In Their Generations.
Then Again
Abraham Took A Wife - Her Name Was Keturah.
She
Bare Him - Zimran Jokshan Medan Midian Ishbak and Shuah.
Jokshan
Begat Sheba - and Dedan.
The
Sons Of Dedan Were - Asshurim Letushim and Leummim.
The
Sons Of Midian - Ephah Epher Hanoch Abidah and Eldaah.
All
These Were - The Children Of Keturah.
Abraham
Gave - all that he had to Isaac.
To
The Sons Of - the concubines that Abraham had Abraham
gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son while he yet
lived eastward to the east Country.
This
Is It - That Their Father Spake To Them and Blessed Them
Every
One According To His Blessing - He Blessed them.
He Charged Them - and Said To Them
I
Am To Be - Gathered To My People.
Bury
Me With My Fathers - in The Cave that is in The Field of Ephron.
In
The Cave In The Field Of Machpelah - That Is Before Mamre
That
Abraham Bought - With The Field of Ephron From
The
Hittite For A Possession - Of A Burying Place.
These
Are The Days Of The Years Of Abraham's Life - that He
lived an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then
Abraham - gave up the ghost and died in a good old age
an old Man full of years and was gathered to his People.
There
They Buried Abraham - and Sarah His Wife.
His
Sons Isaac and Ishmael - Buried Him in The Cave Of Machpelah
in The Field of Ephron The Son of Zohar the Hittite that is
before Mamre.
The
Field That Abraham Purchased - of the sons of Heth there
was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife.
Now
These Are The Generations Of Ishmael - Abraham's son
whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarah's handmaid bare to Abraham
These
Are The Names Of The Sons Of Ishmael - by their names
according to their Generations.
The
Firstborn Of Ishmael - Nebajoth Kedar Adbeel Mibsam Mishma
Dumah Massa Hadar Tema Jetur Naphish and Kedemah
These
Are The Sons Of Ishmael - and these are their names by
their towns and by their Castles Twelve Princes according to
their Nations.
These
Are The Years Of The Life Of Ishmael - an hundred and
thirty seven years and He gave up the ghost and died and was
gathered to his People.
They
Dwelt From - Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt.
As
Thou Goest Toward Assyria - He died in the presence of
all His Brethren.
There
They Buried Isaac - and Rebekah His Wife and
There
I - Buried Leah.
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