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I will give to you and your children after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan for yourselves forever. And I will be their God."

Then God said to Abraham, "You must keep My agreement, you and your children after you for all time.

Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, do not call her name Sarai. But Sarah will be her name.

But God said, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son. And you will give him the name Isaac. I will make My agreement with him and for his children after him, an agreement that will last forever.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bring good to him. I will make him grow in number. He will be the father of twelve rulers. I will make him a great nation.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old. They had lived many years. The way of women had stopped for Sarah.

Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."

For I have chosen him, so that he may teach his children and the sons of his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and fair. So the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has promised him."

But he begged them, so they turned aside with him and went into his house. And he made a supper for them. He made bread without yeast, and they ate.

See, I have two daughters who have never had a man. Let me bring them out to you. And do to them whatever you want. But do nothing to these men, for they have come to be safe under my roof."

For we are about to destroy this place. Because the cry against its people has become so loud to the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

So Lot went out to speak to his sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters. He said, "Get up! Get out of this place! For the Lord will destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was only joking.

But Lot was slow to move. So the men took him, his wife and two daughters by the hand and brought them out of the city. For the Lord had loving-pity for him.

When they had brought them out of the city, one of them said, "Run for your life! Do not look behind you. Do not stop until you are out of the valley. Run to the mountains or else you will be destroyed."

See, your servant has found favor in your eyes. You have shown me great kindness in what you have done for me by saving my life. But I cannot run to the mountains. For I will run into danger and die.

Hurry and run there. For I cannot do anything until you get there." So the name given to the town was Zoar.

Then Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters, and lived in the mountains for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He lived in a cave in the side of a mountain with his two daughters.

Abraham traveled from there to the land of the Negev, and made his home between Kadesh and Shur. Then he lived for a time in Gerar.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her for his wife.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said, "See, you are a dead man because of the woman you have taken. For she is already married."