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And the LORD took him outside and said, "Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able." Then He declared, "So shall your offspring be."

So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut.

So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

"Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

So the Angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."

Then the Angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant's way. After that, you may continue on your way." "Yes," they replied, "you may do as you have said."

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread."

So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"

For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."

Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

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! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"

So the LORD replied, "If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place."

But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!"

And they struck with blindness the men at the entrance, both young and old, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it."