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Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air-for I am grieved that I have made them."

So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."

After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. "

He also said to him, "I am the LORD , who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."

Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."

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

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

Then the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'

Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,

To Sarah he said, "I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated."

Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.

But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.

"I am an alien and a stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead."

I want you to swear by the LORD , the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.