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And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of God’s provident care], and [to mark] seasons, days, and years,
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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
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But I will establish My covenant (promise, pledge) with you, and you shall come into the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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And God pronounced a blessing upon Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
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The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].
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[The victors] took all the wealth of Sodom and Gomorrah and all the supply of provisions and departed.
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On the same day the Lord made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—the land of
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And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token or sign of the covenant (the promise or pledge) between Me and you.
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But My covenant, My promise and pledge, I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year.
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For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and the sons of his house after him to keep the way of the Lord and to do what is just and righteous, so that the Lord may bring Abraham what He has promised him.
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Look now, I have two daughters who are virgins; let me, I beg of you, bring them out to you, and you can do as you please with them. But only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.
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So now restore to the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her [to him], know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.
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The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for her as He had promised.
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After these events, God tested and proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am.
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Abraham said, My son, God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. So the two went on together.
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So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord it will be provided.
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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
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The man stood gazing at her in silence, waiting to know if the Lord had made his trip prosperous.
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She said also to him, We have both straw and provender (fodder) enough, and also room in which to lodge.
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So the man came into the house; and [Laban] ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to bathe his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
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And he said to me, The Lord, in Whose presence I walk [habitually], will send His Angel with you and prosper your way, and you will take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
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Then you shall be clear from my oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they do not give her to you, you shall be free and innocent of my oath.
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I came today to the well and said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if You are now causing me to go on my way prosperously—
