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Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.

Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.