Hi and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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Thank you for joining with me
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today to read the Word of God.
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Before we tape, the
crew and I pray together.
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And today as Mitch prayed,
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he prayed that in the
taping of these programs
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that when they aired
and went into your house
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that the Holy Spirit
would be with each of you
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who are watching right now
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and that the Holy
Spirit would guide your hearts
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as you hear these words.
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That they would be a
comfort and a guide to you
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to bear fruit in your life.
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Now before we start to read
together, let's pray as well.
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Dear God, thank you so
much for the opportunity to
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study and to read...
and to be comforted...
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by the words that
You have sent to us
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to be a lamp to our feet.
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And yes, please, as Mitch
prayed, may Your Holy Spirit
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be with us now and
touch each of our lives
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so that we will not be the
same at the end of this program
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as we are right now... we
will be a little closer to You
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and a little more usable by You.
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We love You so much, and
thank you for loving us. Amen.
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When we were last together
we were reading the story of
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Abram and Sarah going to Egypt
and Abram being so concerned
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about Sarah's
beauty that he had her lie
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and say she was his
sister and not his wife.
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And because of Pharaoh
and his interest in Sarah
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God had plagued Pharaoh's house.
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Now we are picking up on this
story in Genesis chapter 12,
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verse 18, and this is
the King James version.
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And Pharaoh
called Abram, and said,
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"What is this that
thou hast done unto me?
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Why didst thou not tell
me that she was thy wife?
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Why saidst thou,
She is my sister?
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So I might have
taken her to me to wife:
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Now therefore behold thy wife,
take her, and go thy way. "
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And Pharaoh commanded
his men concerning him:
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and they sent him away, and
his wife, and all that he had.
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We are continuing now
with Genesis chapter 13.
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And Abram went up out
of Egypt, he, and his wife,
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and all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the south.
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And Abram was very rich in
cattle, in silver, and in gold.
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And he went on his journeys
from the south even to Bethel,
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unto the place where his
tent had been at the beginning,
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between Bethel and Hai;
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Unto the place of the
altar, which he had made there
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at the first: and there Abram
called on the name of the Lord.
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And Lot also, which went with
Abram, had flocks, and herds,
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and tents. And the land
was not able to bear them,
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that they might dwell together:
for their substance was great,
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so that they could
not dwell together.
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And there was a strife between
the herdsmen of Abram's cattle
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and the herdsmen of
Lot's cattle: and the
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Canaanite and the Perizzite
dwelled then in the land.
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And Abram said unto
Lot, "Let there be no strife,
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I pray thee, between me and
thee, and between my herdsmen
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and thy herdsmen:
for we be brethren.
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Is not the whole
land before thee?
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Separate thyself,
I pray thee, from me:
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If thou wilt take the left hand,
then I will go to the right;
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Or if thou depart
to the right hand,
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then I will go to the left. "
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And Lot lifted up his eyes,
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and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was well watered
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every where, before the Lord
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
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even as the garden of the Lord,
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like the land of Egypt,
as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Then Lot chose him
all the plain of Jordan;
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and Lot journeyed east:
and they separated themselves
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the one from the other.
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Abraham dwelled in
the land of Canaan,
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and Lot dwelled in
the cities of the plain,
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and pitched his
tent toward Sodom.
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But the men of Sodom were wicked
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and sinners before
the Lord exceedingly.
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And the Lord said unto Abram,
after that Lot was separated
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from him, "Lift up now thine
eyes, and look from the place
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where thou art northward,
and southward, and eastward,
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and westward: For all
the land which thou seest,
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to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
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And I will make thy seed
as the dust of the earth:
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so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth,
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then shall thy
seed also be numbered.
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Arise, walk through the
land in the length of it
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and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee. "
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Then Abram removed his tent,
and came and dwelt in the plain
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of Mamre, which is in Hebron,
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and built there an
altar unto the Lord.
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We are reading now in the book
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of Genesis chapter 14, and this
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is the King James version.
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And it came to pass in the
days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
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Arioch king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam,
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and Tidal king of nations;
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That these made war
with Bera king of Sodom,
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and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah,
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Shinab king of Admah,
and Shemeber king of Zeboiim,
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and the king of
Bela, which is Zoar.
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All these were joined
together in the vale of Siddim,
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which is the salt sea.
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Twelve years they
served Chedorlaomer,
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and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
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And in the fourteenth
year came Chedorlaomer,
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and the kings that were
with him, and smote the Rephaim
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in Ashteroth-Karnaim,
and the Zurzim in Ham,
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and the Emim in
Shaveh-Kiriathaim,
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And the Horites in their
mount Seir, unto Elparan,
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which is by the wilderness.
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And they returned, and came
to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh,
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and smote all the
country of the Amalekites,
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and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
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And there went out the king of
Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,
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and the king of Admah,
and the king of Zeboiim,
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and the king of
Bela - the same is Zoar -
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and they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim;
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With
Chedorlaomer the king of Elam,
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and with Tidal king of nations,
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and Amraphel king of Shinar,
and Arioch king of Ellasar;
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four kings with five.
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And the vale of
Siddim was full of slimepits;
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and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and fell there;
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and they that
remained fled to the mountain.
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And they took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and all their
victuals, and went their way.
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And they took Lot,
Abram's brother's son,
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who dwelt in Sodom, and
his goods, and departed.
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And there came one that
had escaped, and told Abram
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the Hebrew; for he dwelt in
the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
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brother of Eshcol, and
brother of Aner: and these were
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confederate with Abram.
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And when Abram heard that
his brother was taken captive,
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he armed his trained
servants, born in his own house,
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three hundred and eighteen,
and pursued them unto Dan.
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And he divided
himself against them,
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he and his servants,
by night, and smote them,
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and pursued them unto Hobah,
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which is on the
left hand of Damascus.
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And he brought back all the
goods, and also brought again
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his brother Lot, and his goods,
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and the women
also, and the people.
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And the king of Sodom went
out to meet him after his return
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from the
slaughter of Chedorlaomer,
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and of the kings
that were with him,
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at the valley of Shaveh,
which is the king's dale.
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And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought forth bread and wine:
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and he was the
priest of the most high God.
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And he blessed him, and said,
"Blessed be Abram of the most
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high God, possessor
of heaven and earth:
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And blessed be the most high
God, which hath delivered thine
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enemies into thy hand. "
And he gave him tithes of all.
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And the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, "Give me the persons,
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and take the goods to thyself. "
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And Abram said to
the king of Sodom,
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"I have lift up mine hand unto
the Lord, the most high God,
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the possessor of
heaven and earth,
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That I will not take from
a thread even to a shoelatch,
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and that I will not
take any thing that is thine,
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lest thou shouldest
say, I have made Abram rich:
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Save only that which
the young men have eaten,
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and the portion of the
men which went with me,
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Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre;
let them take their portion. "
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Continuing now with chapter 15.
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After these things the
word of the Lord came unto Abram
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in a vision,
saying, "Fear not, Abram:
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I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward. "
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And Abram said, "Lord
God, what wilt Thou give me,
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seeing I go childless, and
the steward of my house is this
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Eliezer of Damascus? "
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And Abram said, "Behold,
to me Thou has given no seed:
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and, lo, one born in
my house is mine heir. "
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And behold, the word of
the Lord came unto him, saying,
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"This shall not be thine heir;
but he that shall come forth
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out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir. "
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And He brought him
forth abroad, and said,
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"Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars,
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if thou be able
to number them: "
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and he said unto him,
"So shall thy seed be. "
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And he believed in the Lord;
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and He counted it to
him for righteousness.
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And He said unto him, "I
am the Lord that brought thee
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out of Ur of the Chaldees,
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to give thee this
land to inherit it. "
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And he said, "Lord
God, whereby shall I know
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that I shall inherit it? "
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And He said unto him, "Take
Me a heifer of three years old,
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and a she goat
of three years old,
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and a ram of three
years old, and a turtledove,
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and a young pigeon. "
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And he took unto him all these,
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and divided them in the midst,
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and laid each piece
one against another:
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but the birds divided he not.
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And when the fowls came
down upon the carcasses,
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Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
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and, lo, a horror of
great darkness fell upon him.
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And He said unto Abram,
"Know of a surety that thy seed
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shall be a stranger in
a land that is not theirs,
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and shall serve them;
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and they shall afflict
them four hundred years;
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And also that nation,
whom they shall serve,
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will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out
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with great substance. And
thou shalt go to thy fathers
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in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourth generation
they shall come hither again:
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for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full. "
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And it came to pass,
that, when the sun went down,
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and it was dark,
behold a smoking furnace,
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and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces.
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In the same day the Lord made
a covenant with Abram, saying,
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"Unto thy seed have I given this
land, from the river of Egypt
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unto the great
river, the river Euphrates:
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The Kenites, and the
Kenizzetes, and the Kadmonites,
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and the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
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and the Amorites,
and the Canaanites,
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and the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites. "
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Continuing with chapter 16.
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Now Sarai, Abram's wife,
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bare him no children:
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and she had a handmaid,
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an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said unto Abram,
"Behold now, the Lord hath
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restrained me from bearing: I
pray thee, go in unto my maid;
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it may be that I may
obtain children by her. "
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And Abram hearkened
to the voice of Sarai.
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And Sarai, Abram's wife, took
Hagar her maid the Egyptian,
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after Abram had dwelt ten
years in the land of Canaan,
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and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife.
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And he went in unto
Hagar, and she conceived:
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and when she saw
that she had conceived,
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her mistress was
despised in her eyes.
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And Sarai said unto
Abram, "My wrong be upon thee:
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I have given my maid into
thy bosom: and when she saw
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that she had conceived,
I was despised in her eyes:
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the Lord judge
between me and thee. "
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But Abram said unto
Sarai, "Behold, thy maid is in
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thy hand; do to her
as it pleaseth thee. "
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And when Sarai dealt hardly with
her, she fled from her face.
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And the angel of the Lord
found her by a fountain of water
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in the wilderness, by the
fountain in the way to Shur.
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And he said,
"Hagar, Sarai's maid,
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whence camest thou?
and whither wilt thou go? "
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And she said, "I flee from
the face of my mistress Sarai. "
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And the angel of
the Lord said unto her,
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"Return to thy mistress,
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and submit
thyself under her hands. "
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And the angel of
the Lord said unto her,
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"I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly,
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that it shall not be
numbered for multitude. "
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And the angel of
the Lord said unto her,
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"Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son,
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and shalt call his name Ishmael;
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because the Lord
hath heard thy affliction.
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And he will be a wild man;
his hand will be against every
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man, and every
man's hand against him:
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and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren. "
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And she called the name of
the Lord that spake unto her,
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"Thou God seest
me: " for she said,
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"Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me? "
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Wherefore the well
was called Beerlahairoi;
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behold, it is
between Kadesh and Bered.
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And Hagar bare Abram a son:
and Abram called his son's name,
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which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
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And Abram was
fourscore and six years old,
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when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
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Thank you for being with me
today to read the Word of God.
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And... till we meet
again... may God strengthen you
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in your walk with Him and your
faith - so that you may serve
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Him and serve
others better to His glory.
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Thank you and goodbye.
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