His Wife II

And surely your blood of your lives will I require;

at the hand of every beast will I require it,

and at the hand of man;

at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed:

for in the image of God made he man.

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And Haran died before - his father Terah in the land of - his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

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Therefore shall a man leave his father . . .

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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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. . . and his mother,

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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

and he slept:

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So Abraham prayed unto God:

and God healed Abimelech, and his wife,

and his maidservants;

and they bare children.

For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

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For God,

said she,

hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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and he took one of his ribs,

and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,

made he a workman, and brought her unto the man.

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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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Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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