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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. May Yahweh judge between you and me."

But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant-woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.

And no longer shall your name be called Abram,But your name shall be Abraham;For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."

Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

Then Sarah denied it however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh."

And Abraham answered and said, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend the night in the square."

But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him,

But they said, "Step aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and stepped up to break the door.

But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.

And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of Yahweh was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.

But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords!

Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by preserving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die;

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married."

So now, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;