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Gen 17:1 And it came to be when Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that יהוה
appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I am Ĕl Shaddai – walk before Me and
be perfect.
Gen 17:2 “And I give My covenant between Me and you, and shall greatly
increase you.”
Gen 17:3 And Aḇram fell on his face, and Elohim spoke with him, saying,
Gen 17:4 “As for Me, look, My covenant is with you, and you shall become
a father of many nations.
Gen 17:5 “And no longer is your name called Aḇram, but your name shall be
Aḇraham, because I shall make you a father of many nations.
Gen 17:6 “And I shall make you bear fruit exceedingly, and make nations of
you, and sovereigns shall come from you.
Gen 17:7 “And I shall establish My covenant between Me and you and your
seed after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be Elohim
to you and your seed after you.
Gen 17:8 “And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your
sojournings, all the land of Kena‛an, as an everlasting possession. And I
shall be their Elohim.”
Gen 17:9 And Elohim said to Aḇraham, “As for you, guard My covenant,
you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:10 “This is My covenant which you guard between Me and you, and
your seed after you: Every male child among you is to be circumcised.
Gen 17:11 “And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall
become a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
Gen 17:12 “And a son of eight days is circumcised by you, every male child
in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with silver from
any foreigner who is not of your seed.
Gen 17:13 “He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your
silver, has to be circumcised. So shall My covenant be in your flesh, for an
everlasting covenant.
Gen 17:14 “And an uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin, his life shall be cut off from his people – he has broken
My covenant.”
Gen 17:15 And Elohim said to Aḇraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not
call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name.
Gen 17:16 “And I shall bless her and also give you a son by her. And I shall
bless her, and she shall become nations – sovereigns of peoples are to be
from her.”
Gen 17:17 And Aḇraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart,
“Is a child born to a man who is a hundred years old? Or is Sarah, who is
ninety years old, to bear a child?”
Gen 17:18 And Aḇraham said to Elohim, “Oh, let Yishma‛ĕl live before
You!”
Gen 17:19 And Elohim said, “No, Sarah your wife is truly bearing a son to
you, and you shall call his name Yitsḥaq. And I shall establish My covenant
with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Gen 17:20 “And as for Yishma‛ĕl, I have heard you. See, I shall bless him,
and shall make him bear fruit, and greatly increase him. He is to bring forth
twelve princes, and I shall make him a great nation.
Gen 17:21 “But My covenant I establish with Yitsḥaq, whom Sarah is to
bear to you at this set time next year.”
Gen 17:22 And when He had ended speaking with him, Elohim went up from
Aḇraham.
Gen 17:23 And Aḇraham took Yishma‛ĕl his son, and all those born in his
house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of
Aḇraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that same day,
as Elohim told him.
Gen 17:24 And Aḇraham was ninety-nine years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen 17:25 And Yishma‛ĕl his son was thirteen years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen 17:26 Aḇraham and his son Yishma‛ĕl were circumcised that same day.
Gen 17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with
silver from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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Gen 18:1 And יהוה appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, while
he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Gen 18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw three men standing
opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them,
and bowed himself to the ground,
Gen 18:3 and said, “ יהוה, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do
not pass Your servant by.
Gen 18:4 “Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree.
Gen 18:5 “And let me bring a piece of bread and refresh your hearts, and
then go on, for this is why you have come to your servant.” And they said,
“Do as you have said.”
Gen 18:6 So Aḇraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, “Hurry, make
ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and make cakes.”
Gen 18:7 And Aḇraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it
to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it.
Gen 18:8 And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared,
and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Gen 18:9 And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said,
“See, in the tent.”
Gen 18:10 And He said, “I shall certainly return to you according to the time
of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!” And Sarah was listening
in the tent door which was behind him.
Gen 18:11 Now Aḇraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and
Sarah was past the way of women.
Gen 18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown
old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?”
Gen 18:13 And יהוה said to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I
truly have a child, since I am old?’
Gen 18:14 “Is any matter too hard for יהוה ? At the appointed time I am going
to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a son.”
Gen 18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid.
And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Gen 18:16 And the men rose up from there and looked toward Seḏom, and
Aḇraham went with them to send them away.
Gen 18:17 And יהוה said, “Shall I hide from Aḇraham what I am doing,
Gen 18:18 since Aḇraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 18:19 “For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his
household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-
ruling, so that יהוה brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.”
Gen 18:20 And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against Seḏom and Amorah is
great, and because their sin is very heavy,
Gen 18:21 “I am going down now to see whether they have done altogether
according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know.”
Gen 18:22 So the men turned away from there and went toward Seḏom, but
יהוה still stood before Aḇraham.
Gen 18:23 And Aḇraham drew near and said, “Would You also destroy the
righteous with the wrong?
Gen 18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city, would You also
destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?
Gen 18:25 “Far be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with
the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You!
Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
Gen 18:26 And יהוה said, “If I find in Seḏom fifty righteous within the city,
then I shall spare all the place for their sakes.”
Gen 18:27 And Aḇraham answered and said, “Look, please, I who am but
dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה,
Gen 18:28 “Suppose there are five less than the fifty righteous, would You
destroy all of the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find there forty-
five, I do not destroy it.”
Gen 18:29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there are
found forty?” And He said, “I would not do it for the sake of forty.”
Gen 18:30 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak:
Suppose there are found thirty?” And He said, “I would not do it if I find
thirty there.”
Gen 18:31 And he said, “Look, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak
to יהוה : Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy
it for the sake of twenty.”
Gen 18:32 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak only
this time: Suppose there are found ten?” And He said, “I would not destroy it
for the sake of ten.”
Gen 18:33 Then יהוה went away as soon as He had ended speaking to
Aḇraham. And Aḇraham returned to his place.

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Gen 19:1 And the two messengers came to Seḏom in the evening, and Lot
was sitting in the gate of Seḏom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet
them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
Gen 19:2 and he said, “Look, please my masters, please turn in to your
servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go
your way.” And they said, “No, but let us spend the night in the open square.”
Gen 19:3 But he urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into
his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they
ate.
Gen 19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏom, both
old and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who
came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.”
Gen 19:6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door
behind him,
Gen 19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil!
Gen 19:8 “Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man.
Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no
deed to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Gen 19:9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to
sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse
than them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break
down the door.
Gen 19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house
with them, and shut the door.
Gen 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house
with blindness, both small and great, and they wearied themselves to find the
door.
Gen 19:12 And the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-
law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city –
bring them out of this place!
Gen 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against
them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy
it.”
Gen 19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married
his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to
destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.
Gen 19:15 And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry,
saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest
you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
Gen 19:16 And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his
wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, יהוה having compassion on
him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Gen 19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he
said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the
plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”
Gen 19:18 And Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה !
Gen 19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and
you have increased your kindness which you have shown me by saving my
life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me
and I die.
Gen 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small.
Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and let my life be
saved?”
Gen 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have favoured you concerning this
matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken.
Gen 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you
arrive there.” So the name of the city was called Tso‛ar.
Gen 19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso‛ar.
Gen 19:24 And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה
out of the heavens.
Gen 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post
of salt.
Gen 19:27 And Aḇraham arose early in the morning and went to the place
where he had stood before יהוה,
Gen 19:28 and he looked toward Seḏom and Amorah, and toward all the
land of the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went
up like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain,
that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
Gen 19:30 And Lot went up out of Tso‛ar and dwelt in the mountains, and
his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tso‛ar. And
he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
Gen 19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and
there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.
Gen 19:32 “Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so
that we preserve the seed of our father.”
Gen 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born
went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay
down or when she arose.
Gen 19:34 And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the
younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine
tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of
our father.”
Gen 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the
younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay
down or when she arose.
Gen 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
Gen 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his name Mo’aḇ, he is
the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day.
Gen 19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-
Ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

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Gen 20:1 And Aḇraham set out from there to the land of the South, and dwelt
between Qaḏĕsh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
Gen 20:2 And Aḇraham said concerning Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.”
And Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:3 But Elohim came to Aḇimeleḵ in a dream by night, and said to him,
“See, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for
she is a man’s wife.”
Gen 20:4 However, Aḇimeleḵ had not come near her, and he said, “ יהוה,
would You slay a righteous nation also?
Gen 20:5 “Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, even she
herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the
innocence of my hands I have done this.”
Gen 20:6 And Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yea, I know that you did this
in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For
this reason I did not let you touch her.
Gen 20:7 “And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him
pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall
certainly die, you and all that are yours.”
Gen 20:8 So Aḇimeleḵ rose early in the morning, and called all his servants,
and spoke all these words in their hearing. And the men were greatly
frightened.
Gen 20:9 And Aḇimeleḵ called Aḇraham and said to him, “What have you
done to us? In what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me
and on my reign a great sin? You have done matters to me that should not be
done.”
Gen 20:10 And Aḇimeleḵ said to Aḇraham, “What did you have in view,
that you have done this matter?”
Gen 20:11 And Aḇraham said, “Only because I said to myself, the fear of
Elohim is not in this place, and they shall kill me for the sake of my wife.
Gen 20:12 “And yet, she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father,
but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Gen 20:13 “And it came to be, when Elohim caused me to wander from my
father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for
me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
Gen 20:14 Then Aḇimeleḵ took sheep, and cattle, and male and female
servants, and gave them to Aḇraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.
Gen 20:15 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “See, my land is before you, dwell wherever
it is good in your eyes.”
Gen 20:16 And to Sarah he said, “See, I have given your brother a thousand
pieces of silver. See, it is to you a covering of eyes before all who are with
you and before all others, and you are cleared before everyone.”
Gen 20:17 And Aḇraham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Aḇimeleḵ,
and his wife, and his female servants, so they bore children,
Gen 20:18 for יהוה had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇimeleḵ
because of Sarah, Aḇraham’s wife.