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Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid." He said, "No, but you did laugh."

The men turned from there, and went toward Sedom, but Avraham stood yet before the LORD.

Avraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

But God came to Avimelekh in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned."

Yitzchak spoke to Avraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."

He spoke to `Efron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitzchak."

Food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."

but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

but to the sons of the concubines who Avraham had, Avraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Yitzchak his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.