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And he said to him, "I am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it."

And he said, "O Yahweh God, how shall I know that I will possess it?"

On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river,

And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps I will have children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm be upon you. I had my servant sleep with you, and when she saw that she had conceived, she no longer respected me. May Yahweh judge between me and you!"

And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.

Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her authority."

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance."

And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.

So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El-Roi," for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."

When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless

And Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day.

Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What is this that Sarah laughed, saying, ‘Is it indeed true that I will bear a child, now that I have grown old?'

Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you in the spring and Sarah shall have a son."

Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do?

For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."

Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very serious,

And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Yahweh.

And Abraham drew near to Yahweh and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

And Yahweh said, "If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake."