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In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

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 Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.