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Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Then the LORD said, "I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."

Then God said to Noah, "The end of humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

"Now behold, I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

"Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations;

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great."

But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"

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

He said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave woman, from where have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

Now 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.

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

But the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?'

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

And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am only dust and ashes.

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

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

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

"I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

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