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Then the Lord said to him, "Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance." And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."

so that the land could not support both of them living together; for their possessions were so great that they could not live together,

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, so that you might not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"

and they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them."

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father."

On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father."

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

"I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

so that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place."

He said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "If you only will listen to me! I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there."

Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn either to the right hand or to the left."