Two sons IX

Abram; the same is Abraham.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.

These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

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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.

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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Now Sarai Abram's wife - bare him no children:

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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the waters returned from off the earth continually:

and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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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.

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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

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.

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And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: . .

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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. . . .

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed - after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in it-self, - after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God see-st me: for she said,

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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Have I also - here looked after him that see-th me?

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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,  . . .

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And I will put enmity - between thee and the work-man, - and between - thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

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And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! . . .

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But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, - and thy sons' - wives with thee.

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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.

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Un-to Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man - is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time - in the next year.

And he left off talking with him,

and God went up - from Abraham.

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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.

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And he went in unto Hagar,

and she conceived:

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And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

For Sarah conceived, . . .

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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me - another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

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And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, - - his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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