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So she laughed to herself: "After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?"

For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him."

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

They called out to Lot and said, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the entrance.

for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord , that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there—it's only a small place, isn't it?—so that I can survive."

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when He demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line."

So they got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I slept with my father last night. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line."

So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

So when God had me wander from my father's house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me: ‘He's my brother.'"

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!"

Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, "I can't bear to watch the boy die!" So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.