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So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.