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Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
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So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
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All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
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And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
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.”
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Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
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“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
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Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
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The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
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The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.
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Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
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No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
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Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
