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And 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 descendants 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 sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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 dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,

So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other.

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

So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt 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 Gomor'rah, and all their provisions, and went their way;

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

So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sar'ai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?"

both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on--since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."