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So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Genesis 1:28">[fn]

So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. [fn]

So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.

So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.

And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

So he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people.

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

So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became despised in her eyes.

So Abram said to Sarai, "Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to her as you please." And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.