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Date: 03 May 2005 02:07:05 AM
Object: Genesis 16, World English Bible
Genesis, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. {16:2} Sarai said to
Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in
to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram
listened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar
the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the
land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
{16:4} He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she
had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. {16:5} Sarai
said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your
bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her
eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
{16:6} But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand.
Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with
her, and she fled from her face.
{16:7} The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. {16:8} He said,
"Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you
going?"
She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
{16:9} The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress,
and submit yourself under her hands." {16:10} The angel of Yahweh said
to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be
numbered for multitude." {16:11} The angel of Yahweh said to her,
"Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his
name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction. {16:12} He
will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every
man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of
his brothers."
{16:13} She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a
God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing
him?" {16:14} Therefore the well was called [1>]Beer Lahai Roi.[<1]
Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
{16:15} Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his
son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. {16:16} Abram was eighty-six years old
when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
{17:1} When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to
Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be
blameless. {17:2} I will make my covenant between me and you, and will
multiply you exceedingly."
{17:3} Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying, {17:4}
"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of
a multitude of nations. {17:5} Neither will your name any more be
called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the
father of a multitude of nations. {17:6} I will make you exceedingly
fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
{17:7} I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed
after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to
be a God to you and to your seed after you. {17:8} I will give to you,
and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
{17:9} God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant,
you and your seed after you throughout their generations. {17:10} This
is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed
after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. {17:11} You
shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token
of the covenant between me and you. {17:12} He who is eight days old
will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations,
he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner
who is not of your seed. {17:13} He who is born in your house, and he
who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will
be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. {17:14} The
uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my
covenant."
{17:15} God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not
call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. {17:16} I will bless
her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her,
and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from
her."
{17:17} Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will
Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" {17:18} Abraham said to
God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
{17:19} God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son.
You shall call his name [2>]Isaac.[<2] I will establish my covenant
with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. {17:20}
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will
make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become
the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
{17:21} But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear
to you at this set time next year."
{17:22} When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
{17:23} Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house,
and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of
Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the
same day, as God had said to him. {17:24} Abraham was ninety-nine
years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
{17:25} Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the same day both
Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. {17:27} All the men of
his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a
foreigner, were circumcised with him.
{18:1} Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the
tent door in the heat of the day. {18:2} He lifted up his eyes and
looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the
earth, {18:3} and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your
sight, please don't go away from your servant. {18:4} Now let a little
water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
{18:5} I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart.
After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your
servant."
They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
{18:6} Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly
make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
{18:7} Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf,
and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. {18:8} He took
butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before
them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
{18:9} They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?"
He said, "See, in the tent."
{18:10} He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season
comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son."
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. {18:11} Now
Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be
with Sarah after the manner of women. {18:12} Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord
being old also?"
{18:13} Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will
I really bear a child, yet I am old?' {18:14} Is anything too hard for
Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes
round, and Sarah will have a son."
{18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was
afraid.
He said, "No, but you did laugh."
{18:16} The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham
went with them to see them on their way. {18:17} Yahweh said, "Will I
hide from Abraham what I do, {18:18} seeing that Abraham has surely
become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
will be blessed in him? {18:19} For I have known him, to the end that
he may command his children and his household after him, that they may
keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end
that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
{18:20} Yahweh 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 their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come
to me. If not, I will know."
{18:22} The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but
Abraham stood yet before Yahweh. {18:23} Abraham drew near, and said,
"Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? {18:24} What if there
are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare
the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? {18:25} Be it far
from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the
wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be
far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
{18:26} Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the
city, then I will spare all the place for their sake." {18:27} Abraham
answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord,
who am but dust and ashes. {18:28} What if there will lack five of the
fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?"
He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
{18:29} He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are
forty found there?"
He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
{18:30} He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak.
What if there are thirty found there?"
He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
{18:31} He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the
Lord. What if there are twenty found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
{18:32} He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak
just once more. What if ten are found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
{18:33} Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing
with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:14} Beer Lahai Roi means "well of the one who lives and sees
me."
[2] {17:19} Isaac means "he laughs."
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