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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 Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.

Lot hesitated. The Lord , however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.

Because Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.

he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Abraham himself said that she was his sister, and she said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience, and I have done no wrong."

Early the next morning Abimelech called all his officials and told them what had happened, and they were terrified.

Because of what had happened to Sarah, Abraham's wife, the Lord had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech's palace to have children. So Abraham prayed for Abimelech, and God healed him. He also healed his wife and his slave women, so that they could have children.

Then she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

This troubled Abraham very much, because Ishmael also was his son.

Get up, go and pick him up, and comfort him. I will make a great nation out of his descendants."

His mother got an Egyptian wife for him.

At that time Abimelech went with Phicol, the commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.

Abraham separated seven lambs from his flock,

Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about.

When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Abraham looked around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Abraham went back to his servants, and they went together to Beersheba, where Abraham settled.

Some time later Abraham learned that Milcah had borne eight children to his brother Nahor:

Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,