Hi and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and before
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we read today
let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so
much for this opportunity to...
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to step out of our daily lives
and to sit quietly with Your
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Word for a few minutes
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and to listen to You
speak to us and to be refreshed.
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Please send Your Holy
Spirit now to guide our minds,
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guide our thoughts,
so that we may understand
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and then put these words
into action to Your glory.
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We love You; thank
you for loving us. Amen.
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We are reading today
in the book of Genesis.
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And when we were last together
we were reading the account of
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the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
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And how the visitors from
God had taken Lot and his wife
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and his two daughters and urged
them to flee from the cities
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and not to look back.
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And then God rained fire
and brimstone out of heaven
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onto Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Picking up the story
in Genesis 19 verse 25.
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And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain,
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and all the
inhabitants of the cities,
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and that which
grew upon the ground.
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But his wife looked
back from behind him,
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and she became a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham got up early in the
morning to the place where he
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stood before the Lord:
And he looked toward Sodom
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and Gomorrah, and toward
all the land of the plain,
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and beheld, and, lo, the
smoke of the country went up
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as the smoke of a furnace.
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And it came to pass, when
God destroyed the cities of the
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plain, that God
remembered Abraham,
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and sent Lot out of
the midst of the overthrow,
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when He overthrew the
cities in the which Lot dwelt.
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And Lot went up out of
Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain,
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and his two daughters with him;
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for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
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and he dwelt in a cave,
he and his two daughters.
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And the first-born
said unto the younger,
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Our father is old, and
there is not a man in the earth
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to come in unto us after
the manner of all the earth:
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Come, let us make
our father drink wine,
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and we will lie with him,
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that we may
preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their
father drink wine that night:
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and the first-born went
in, and lay with her father;
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and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
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And it came to pass on the
morrow, that the first-born said
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unto the younger, "Behold, I
lay yesternight with my father:
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let us make him
drink wine this night also;
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and go thou in,
and lie with him,
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that we may
preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their father
drink wine that night also:
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and the younger
arose, and lay with him;
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and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
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Thus were both the daughters of
Lot with child by their father.
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And the first-born bare a
son, and called his name Moab:
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the same is the father of
the Moabites unto this day.
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And the younger,
she also bare a son,
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and called his name
Benammi: the same is the father
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of the children of
Ammon unto this day.
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We are continuing now in the
book of Genesis in chapter 20.
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And Abraham journeyed from
thence toward the south country,
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and dwelled between Kadesh and
Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
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And Abraham said of Sarah
his wife, "She is my sister: "
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and Abimelech king of
Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
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But God came to
Abimelech in a dream by night,
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and said to him, "Behold,
thou art but a dead man,
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for the woman
which thou hast taken;
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for she is a man's wife. "
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But Abimelech had not
come near her: and he said,
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"Lord, wilt thou slay
also a righteous nation?
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Said he not unto
me, 'She is my sister? '
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and she, even she herself
said, 'He is my brother: '
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in the integrity of my
heart and innocency of my hands
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have I done this. "
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And God said
unto him in a dream,
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"Yea, I know that thou didst
this in the integrity of thy
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heart; for I also withheld
thee from sinning against Me:
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therefore suffered I
thee not to touch her.
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Now therefore restore the man
his wife; for he is a prophet,
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and he shall pray for
thee, and thou shalt live:
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and if thou restore her not,
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know thou that
thou shalt surely die,
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thou, and all that are thine. "
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Therefore Abimelech
rose early in the morning,
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and called all his servants,
and told all these things
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in their ears: and
the men were sore afraid.
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Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said unto him,
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"What hast thou done unto us?
and what have I offended thee,
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that thou hast brought on me
and on my kingdom a great sin?
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thou has done deeds unto me
that ought not to be done. "
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
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"What sawest thou, that
thou hast done this thing? "
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And Abraham said, "Because I
thought, Surely the fear of God
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is not in this
place; and they will slay me
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for my wife's sake. And
yet indeed she IS my sister;
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she is the
daughter of my father,
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but not the
daughter of my mother;
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and she became my wife. "
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And it came to pass,
when God caused me to wander
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from my father's
house, that I said unto her,
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"This is thy kindness
which thou shalt show unto me;
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at every place whither
we shall come, say of me,
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He is my brother. "
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And Abimelech took sheep,
and oxen, and menservants,
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and womenservants, and
gave them unto Abraham,
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and restored him Sarah his wife.
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And Abimelech said:
"Behold, my land is before thee:
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dwell where it pleaseth thee. "
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And unto Sarah he said,
"Behold, I have given thy
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brother a
thousand pieces of silver:
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behold he is to thee
a covering of the eyes,
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unto all that are with
thee, and with all other: "
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thus she was reproved.
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So Abraham prayed unto
God: and Gold healed Abimelech,
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and his wife,
and his maidservants,
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and they bare children.
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For the Lord had fast closed
up all the wombs of the house of
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Abimelech, because
of Sarah Abraham's wife.
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Continuing in chapter 21.
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And the Lord visited
Sarah as He had said,
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and the Lord did unto
Sarah as He had spoken.
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For Sarah conceived, and bare
Abraham a son in his old age,
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at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.
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And Abraham called the
name of his son that was born
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unto him, whom
Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
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And Abraham circumcised his
son Isaac being eight days old,
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as God had commanded him.
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And Abraham was a hundred years
old, when his son Isaac was born
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unto him. And Sarah said,
"God hath made me to laugh,
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so that all that hear
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will laugh with me. "
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And she said, "Who would have
said unto Abraham that Sarah
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should have given children suck?
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for I have born him
a son in his old age. "
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And the child
grew, and was weaned:
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and Abraham made a great feast
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the same day
that Isaac was weaned.
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And Sarah saw the son
of Hagar, the Egyptian,
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which she had born
unto Abraham, mocking.
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Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
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"Cast out this
bondwoman and her son:
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for the son of this bondwoman
shall not be heir with my son,
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even with Isaac. "
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And the thing was very
grievous in Abraham's sight
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because of his son.
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And God said unto Abraham,
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"Let it not be grievous in
thy sight because of the lad,
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and because of thy bondwoman;
in all that Sarah hath said
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unto thee,
hearken unto her voice;
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for in Isaac shall
thy seed be called.
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And also of the son of the
bondwoman will I make a nation,
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because he is thy seed. "
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And Abraham rose up early
in the morning, and took bread,
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and a bottle of water,
and gave it unto Hagar,
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putting it on her shoulder, and
the child, and sent her away:
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and she departed, and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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And the water was
spent in the bottle,
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and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
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And she went, and sat her down
over against him a good way off,
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as it were a
bowshot: for she said,
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"Let me not see the
death of the child. "
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And she sat over against him,
and lift up her voice, and wept.
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And God heard
the voice of the lad;
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and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven,
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and said unto her,
"What aileth thee, Hagar?
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fear not; for God hath heard the
voice of the lad where he is.
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Arise, lift up the lad,
and hold him in thine hand;
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for I will make
him a great nation. "
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And God opened her eyes,
and she saw a well of water;
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and she went, and
filled the bottle with water,
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and gave the lad drink.
And God was with the lad;
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and he grew, and
dwelt in the wilderness,
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and became an archer.
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And he dwelt in the
wilderness of Paran:
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and his mother took him a
wife out of the land of Egypt.
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And it came to pass at that
time that Abimelech and Phichol
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the chief captain of his
host spake unto Abraham, saying,
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"God is with thee
in all that thou doest:
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Now therefore swear unto me
here by God that thou wilt not
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deal falsely with
me, nor with my son,
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nor with my son's son:
but according to the kindness
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that I have done unto
thee, thou shalt do unto me,
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and to the land
wherein thou hast sojourned. "
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And Abraham
said, "I will swear. "
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And Abraham reproved Abimelech
because of a well of water,
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which Abimelech's servants
had violently taken away.
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And Abimelech said, "I wot
not who hath done this thing:
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neither didst thou tell
me, neither yet heard I of it,
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but today. " And
Abraham took sheep and oxen,
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and gave them unto Abimelech;
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and both of
them made a covenant.
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And Abraham set seven ewe lambs
of the flock by themselves.
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
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"What mean these seven ewe lambs
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which thou hast
set by themselves? "
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And he said, "For these
seven ewe lambs shalt thou take
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of my hand, that they
may be a witness unto me,
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that I have digged this well. "
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Wherefore he called
that place Beersheba:
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because there they
sware both of them.
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Thus they made a
covenant at Beersheba:
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and Abimelech rose up,
and Phichol the chief captain
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of his host, and they returned
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into the land
of the Philistines.
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And Abraham planted
a grove in Beersheba,
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and called there on the name of
the Lord, the everlasting God.
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And Abraham sojourned in
the Philistines land many days.
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We are continuing to read in
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Genesis; this is chapter 22.
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And it came to pass after
these things, that God did tempt
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Abraham, and said unto him,
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"Abraham: " and he
said, "Behold, here I am. "
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And He said, "Take now
thy son, thine only son Isaac,
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whom thou lovest, and get
thee into the land of Moriah;
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and offer him there
for a burnt offering
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upon one of the mountains
which I will tell thee of. "
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And Abraham rose up
early in the morning,
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and saddled his ass, and took
two of his young men with him,
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and Isaac his son, and clave
the wood for the burnt offering,
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and rose up, and
went unto the place
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of which God had told him.
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Then on the third day
Abraham lifted up his eyes,
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and saw the place afar off.
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And Abraham said
unto his young men,
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"Abide ye here with the ass;
and I and the lad will go yonder
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and worship, and
come again to you. "
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And Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering,
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and laid it upon Isaac his son;
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and he took the fire
in his hand, and a knife;
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and they went
both of them together.
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And Isaac spake unto
Abraham his father, and said,
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"My father: " and he said,
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"Here am I, my son. "
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And he said, "Behold
the fire and the wood:
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but where is the lamb
for a burnt offering? "
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And Abraham said,
"My son, God will provide
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Himself a lamb for
a burnt offering: "
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so they went
both of them together.
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And they came to the
place which God had told him of:
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and Abraham built and
altar there, and laid the wood
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in order, and
bound Isaac his son,
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and laid him on the
altar upon the wood.
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And Abraham
stretched forth his hand,
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and took the
knife to slay his son.
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And the angel of the Lord
called unto him out of heaven,
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and said, "Abraham, Abraham; "
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and he said, "Here am I. "
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And He said, "Lay not
thine hand upon the lad,
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neither do thou
any thing unto him:
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for now I know
that thou fearest God,
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seeing thou has
not withheld thy son,
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thine only son from Me. "
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And Abraham lifted
up his eyes, and looked,
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and behold behind him
a ram caught in a thicket
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by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram,
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and offered him up
for a burnt offering
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in the stead of his son.
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And Abraham called the name
of that place Jehovah-Jireh:
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as it is said to this day,
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In the mount of the
Lord it shall be seen.
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And the angel of the
Lord called unto Abraham
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out of heaven the second time.
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And said, "By Myself
have I sworn, saith the Lord,
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for because thou hast done this
thing, and hast not withheld
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thy son, thine only son;
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That in blessing I will
bless thee, and in multiplying
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I will multiply thy seed
as the stars of the heaven,
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and as the sand which
is upon the sea shore;
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and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies;
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And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed;
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because thou hast
obeyed My voice. "
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So Abraham
returned unto his young men,
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and they rose up and
went together to Beersheba;
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and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
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And it came to
pass after these things,
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that it was
told Abraham, saying,
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"Behold, Milcah, she hath also
born children unto thy brother
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Nahor; Huz his
first-born, and Buz his brother,
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and Kemuel the father of Aram,
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And Chesed, and Hazo,
and Pildash, and Jidlaph,
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and Bethuel. And
Bethuel begat Rebekah:
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these eight Milcah did bear
to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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And his concubine,
whose name was Reumah,
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she bare also Tebah, and
Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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When we are together again
we'll start with chapter 23.
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Thank you for joining
with me and God bless you.
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