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Adonai appeared to Avram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to Adonai , who had appeared to him.

But there was a famine in the land, so Avram went down into Egypt to stay there, because the famine in the land was severe.

so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and kill me but keep you alive.

Please say that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me for your sake, and so that I will stay alive because of you."

Pharaoh's princes saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my own wife? Now therefore, here is your wife! Take her, and go away!"

So Pharaoh gave orders concerning him to his men, and they sent him on his way with his wife and everything he had.

So Lot chose all the plain of the Yarden for himself, and Lot traveled eastward; thus they separated themselves from each other.

and I will make your descendants as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth — so that if a person can count the specks of dust on the earth, then your descendants can be counted.

so he blessed him with these words: "Blessed be Avram by El ‘Elyon, maker of heaven of earth.

that I will not take so much as a thread or a sandal thong of anything that is yours; so that you won't be able to say, ‘I made Avram rich.'

You haven't given me a child," Avram continued, "so someone born in my house will be my heir."

so Sarai said to Avram, "Here now, Adonai has kept me from having children; so go in and sleep with my slave-girl. Maybe I'll be able to have children through her." Avram listened to what Sarai said.

However, Avram answered Sarai, "Look, she's your slave-girl. Deal with her as you think fit." Then Sarai treated her so harshly that she ran away from her.

The angel of Adonai said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."

So she named Adonai who had spoken with her El Ro'i [God of seeing], because she said, "Have I really seen the One who sees me [and stayed alive]?"

Please let me send for some water, so that you can wash your feet; then rest under the tree,

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "I am old, and so is my lord; am I to have pleasure again?"

Adonai said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and ask, ‘Am I really going to bear a child when I am so old?'

(ii) Sarah denied it, saying, "I didn't either laugh," because she was afraid. He said, "Not so — you did laugh."