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As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."

Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."

Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.

Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

And so there was not enough pasture land for the two of them to stay together, because they had too many animals.

So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself and moved away toward the east. That is how the two men parted.

They had been under the control of Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled against him.

Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela drew up their armies for battle in Siddim Valley and fought

I will take nothing for myself. I will accept only what my men have used. But let my allies, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, take their share."

The Lord said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.

So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.)

Let me bring some water for you to wash your feet; you can rest here beneath this tree.

Is anything too hard for the Lord ? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."

The Lord answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake."

He kept on urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it was ready, they ate it.

Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."