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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. Then I will live on account of you."

Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men are brothers.

So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated from each other.

for all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your descendants, forever.

Arise, go through the length of the land and through its breadth, for I will give it to you."

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself."

And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon."

And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite the other, but the birds he did not cut.

And as for you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete."

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance."

And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.

So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El-Roi," for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."

And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.

"As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.