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But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please!

Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman."

Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die."

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,

But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

But Abimelek said, "I don't know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today."

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.

"Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."

but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac."

Then food was set before him, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say." "Then tell us," Laban said.

but go to my father's family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.'

But her brother and her mother replied, "Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go."

But he said to them, "Do not detain me, now that the Lord has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master."

But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.