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Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it."

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!" But it seemed like a joke in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

But when he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife's hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city.

Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh.

And Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the everlasting God.

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

And Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh will provide," for which reason it is said today, "on the mountain of Yahweh it shall be provided."

And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven.

And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,

Now Abraham was old, advanced in age, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘to your offspring 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, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham.

And the man was gazing at her silently to know if Yahweh had made his journey successful or not.

And the man knelt down and worshiped Yahweh.

And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I was on the way and Yahweh led me to the house of my master's brother."