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When they had brought them out, he said, "Flee for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stop anywhere in the plain, but escape to the hills! Otherwise you will be swept away."

Here, your servant has already found favor in your sight, and you have shown me even greater mercy by saving my life. But I can't escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

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

But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

But God came to Avimelekh in a dream one night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, since she is someone's wife."

Therefore, return the man's wife to him now. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you, so that you will live. But if you don't return her, know that you will certainly die — you and all who belong to you."

But she actually is also my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and so she became my wife.

But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom Hagar had borne to Avraham, making fun of Yitz'chak;

But God said to Avraham, "Don't be distressed because of the boy and your slave-girl. Listen to everything Sarah says to you, because it is your descendants through Yitz'chak who will be counted.

But I will also make a nation from the son of the slave-girl, since he is descended from you."

Therefore, swear to me here by God that you will never deal falsely with me or with my son or grandson; but according to the kindness with which I have treated you, you will treat me and the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.

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

But the angel of Adonai called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!" He answered, "Here I am."

But ‘Efron answered Avraham,

but that you will go to my homeland, to my kinsmen, to choose a wife for my son Yitz'chak."

But if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from your obligation under my oath. Just don't bring my son back there."

But when a meal was set before him, he said, "I won't eat until I say what I have to say." Lavan said, "Speak."

this will release you from your obligation under my oath. But if, when you come to my kinsmen, they refuse to give her to you, this too will release you from my oath.'

"So now if you people intend to show grace and truth to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me, so that I can turn elsewhere."

He answered them, "Don't delay me, since Adonai has made my trip successful, but let me go back to my master."