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But the Lord sent terrible diseases on the king and all the people in his house because of Abram's wife Sarai.

Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, because we are brothers.

Get up! Walk through all this land because I am now giving it to you."

I will keep nothing but the food my young men have eaten. But give Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre their share of what we won, because they went with me into battle."

After your great-great-grandchildren are born, your people will come to this land again. It will take that long, because I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior."

The angel added, "You are now pregnant, and you will have a son. You will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cries.

The slave girl gave a name to the Lord who spoke to her: "You are ‘God who sees me,'" because she said to herself, "Have I really seen God who sees me?"

I am changing your name from Abram to Abraham because I am making you a father of many nations.

Any male who is not circumcised will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my agreement."

The Lord said, "If I find fifty good people in the city of Sodom, I will save the whole city because of them."

because we are about to destroy this city. The Lord has heard of all the evil that is here, so he has sent us to destroy it."

But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)

This troubled Abraham very much because Ishmael was also his son.

I will also make the descendants of Ishmael into a great nation because he is your son, too."

So that place was called Beersheba because they made a promise to each other there.

and said, "The Lord says, ‘Because you did not keep back your son, your only son, from me, I make you this promise by my own name:

Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed me.'"

She died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried because of her.

and I bowed my head and thanked the Lord . I praised the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, because he led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

But the servant said to them, "Do not make me wait, because the Lord has made my trip successful. Now let me go back to my master."