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So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the door.

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.

So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Now Abim'elech had not approached her; so he said, "Lord, wilt thou slay an innocent people?

So Abim'elech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abim'elech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.

So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.