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But the Lord said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

I will greatly multiply your descendants," the Lord 's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."

Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."

Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.' This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you."

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site."