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And all the men of his household, those who were born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.

Abraham approached and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

"Far be it from You to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them."

"Now look, I have two daughters who have not had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shelter of my roof."

But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the small to the great, so that they became weary of trying to find the doorway.

Now Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and stayed in the mountains, because he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to have relations with us according to the custom of all the earth.

"Come, let's make our father drink wine, and let's sleep with him so that we may keep our family alive through our father."

So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I slept last night with my father; let's make him drink wine tonight too, then you go in and sleep with him, so that we may keep our family alive through our father."

So they had their father drink wine that night too, and the younger got up and slept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you, and before everyone you are cleared."

Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."

Therefore she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be an heir with my son Isaac!"

God heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.