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Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."

And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to possess."

But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"

And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'

The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

"I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethu'el the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

behold, I am standing by the spring of water; let the young woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say, "Pray give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)

Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"