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

And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up, go out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

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, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven;

And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh:

For Yahweh had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

And the angel of Yahweh called to him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this day, On the mount of Yahweh it shall be provided.

And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,

and said, By myself I have sworn, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and haven't withheld your son, your only son,

And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age. And Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

And I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

And he said, O Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray you, success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

And the man looked steadfastly on her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.

And the man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving-kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

And he said, Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.