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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them whatever you want. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

"Get out of the way!" they replied. And they declared, "This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them." And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.

And they struck with blindness the men at the entrance, both young and old, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD's compassion for them.

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains-for he was afraid to stay in Zoar-where they lived in a cave.

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children-

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, "Send me on my way to my master."

So they said, "We will call the girl and ask her opinion."

They called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."

Ishmael's descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one as well; so he named it Sitnah.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, "At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."