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And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.