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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 the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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Isaac's Birth Promised
And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
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Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
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The Birth of Isaac
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
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God Protects Hagar and Ishmael
And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
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So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
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“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”
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The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
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But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”
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The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.
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But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
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Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’
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“I came today to the spring and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,
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But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
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God's Promise to Isaac
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
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Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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Jacob's Prosperity
As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
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For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”
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He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
