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Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

so that the land could not support both of them living together; for their possessions were so great that they could not live together,

So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; thus they separated from each other.

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

So Abram moved his tent, and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the Lord .

So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way;

that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, so that you might not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'

And Abram said, "You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir."

He brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.

The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude."