Before ner, to flay the righteous with the wicked: and Chrift that the righteous fhould be as the wicked, that 1898. be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

26 And the LORD faid, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their fakes.

27 And Abraham answered and faid, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but duft and athes.

28 Peradventure there fhall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou deftroy all the city for Lack of five? And he faid, If I find there forty and five, I will not deftroy it.

29 And he spake unto him yet again, and faid, Peradventure there fhall be forty found there. And he faid, I will not do it for forty's fake.

30 And he faid unto him, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there fhall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

31 And he faid, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there fhall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not deftroy it for twenty's fake.

32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten fhall be found there. And he said, 1 will not destroy it for ten's fake.

33 And the LORD went his way, as foon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

CHAP. XIX.

1 Lot entertaineth two angels. 4 The vicious Sodomites are firicken with blindness. 12 Lot is fent for fafety into the mountain. 18 He obtaineth leave to go into Zoar. 24 Sodom and Gomorrah are defiroyed. 26 Lot's wife is a pillar of falt. 30 Lot dwelleth in a cave. 31 The inceftuous original of Moab and Ammon.

AND there came two angels to Sodom at

even; and Lot fat in the gate of Sodom : and Lot feeing them, rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your fervant's houfe, and Chap. 18. tarry all night, and a wash your feet, and ye fhall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they faid, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3 And he preffed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house: and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4 ¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compaffed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

5 And they called unto Lot, and faid unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

The Sodomites ftricken with blindness.

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6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and thut the door after him,

7 And faid, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the fhadow of my roof.

9 And they faid, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to fojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worfe with thee, than with them. And they preffed fore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and fhut to the door.

11 And they fmote the men that were at the Wild. 19} door of the house with blindness, both fmall and 17. great fo that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12 ¶ And the men faid unto Lot, Haft thou here any befides? fon-in-law, and thy fons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou haft in the city, bring them out of this place.

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13 For we will deftroy this place because the cry of them is waxen great before the face Chap. 18 of the LORD, and the LORD hath sent us to de- 20. ftroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his fonsin-law, which married his daughters, and faid, Up, get ye out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

15 And when the morning arose, then the angels haftened Lot, faying, Arife, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which + are here; left † Heb. thou be confumed in the | iniquity of the city. are found. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid, punifbment. hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of Wild. 10. his wife, and upon the hand of his two daugh- 6. ters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and fet him without the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he faid, Efcape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither ftay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, left thou be confumed.

18 And Lot faid unto them, Oh not so, my Lord!

19 Behold now, thy fervant hath found grace in thy fight, and thou haft magnified thy mercy, which thou haft fhewed unto me in faving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain, left fome evil take me, and I die.

20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh let me escape thither, (Is it not a little one?) and my foul fhall live.

21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing alfo, that I + Heb. will not overthrow this city, for the which thou thy face. haft spoken.

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Sodom and Gomorrah deftrayed.

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e Deut. 29. 23. Luke 17. 29. Ifai. 13. 19.

22 Hafte thee, efcape thither; for I cannot do

Abraham denieth bis wife.

the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The fun was + rifen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

25 And he overthrew thofe cities, and all the Jer. 50. 40. plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Amos 4.

Jude 7.

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26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of falt.

27¶ And Abraham gat up early in the morning, to the place where he stood before the LORD,

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the finoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 ¶ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and fent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 ¶ And the first-born faid unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preferve feed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night and the firft-born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when the arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firft-born faid unto the younger, Behold, I lay yefternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night alfo; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preferve feed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night alfo and the younger arofe, and lay with him; and he perceived not when the lay down, nor when the arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37 And the first-born bare a fon, and called his name Moab: the fame is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, fhe alfo bare a fon, and called his name Ben-ammi: the fame is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

CHAP. XX.

1 Abraham fojourneth at Gerar, z denieth his wife, and lofeth her. 3 Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream. 9 He rebuketh Abraham, 14 refloreth Sarah, 16 and reproveth her. 17 He is healed by Abraham's prayer.

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ward the fouth country, and dwelled be- Christ tween Kadeth and Shur, and fojourned in Gerar. cir. 1897.

2 And Abraham faid of Sarah his wife, She is my fifter: And Abimelech king of Gerar fent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and faid to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou haft taken : for the is a man's wife.

† Heb 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and married to he faid, LORD, wilt thou flay alfo a righteous an busband.

nation?

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Said he not unto me, She is my fifter? and fhe, even the herfelf faid, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart, and innocency of || Or, my hands have I done this. fimplicity, 6 And God faid unto him in a dream, Yea, I or, fincerity. know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I alfo withheld thee from finning against me: therefore fuffered I thee not to touch her.

7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he thall pray for thee, and thou fhalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou fhalt furely die, thou, and

all that are thine.

8 Therefore Abimelech rofe early in the morning, and called all his fervants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were fore afraid.

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and faid unto him, What haft thou done unto us? and. what have I offended thee, that thou haft brought on me and on my kingdom a great fin? thou haft done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

10 And Abimelech faid unto Abraham, What faweft thou, that thou haft done this thing?

1 And Abraham faid, Becaufe I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will flay me for my wife's fake.

12 And yet indeed he is my fifter; the is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife.

13 And it came to país, when God caufed me to wander from my father's house, that I faid unto her, This is thy kindnefs which thou shalt fhew unto me; At every place whither we shall come, a fay of me, He is my brother.

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14 And Abimelech took fheep, and oxen, and 13. men-fervants, and women-fervants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech faid, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell + where it pleafeth thee.

+ Heb.

16 And unto Sarah he faid, Behold, I have as is good in: given thy brother a thoufand pieces of filver: thine eyeso behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other : thus fhe was reproved.

17 ¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his. maid-servants; and they bare children,

18 For

Ifaac's birth and circumcifion.

7 And the faid, Who would have faid unto Abraham, that Sarah fhould have given children fuck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.

8 And the child grew, and was weaned and Abraham made a great feaft the fame day that Ifaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah faw the fon of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

cir. 1892. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, & Caft ◄ Gal. 4. 30. out this bond-woman, and her fon: for the fon of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my fon, even with Ifaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's fight, becaule of his fon.

12 And God faid unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy fight, because of the lad, and becaufe of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath faid unto thee, hearken unto her voice: for in Ifaac fhall thy feed be called. -13 And also of the fon of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy feed.

14 And Abraham rofe up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her thoulder) and the child, and fent her away: and fhe departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beertheba.

15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and The caft the child under one of the fhrubs.

16 And the went, and fat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bowThot: for the faid, Let me not fee the death of

Abimelech covenanteth with Abraham. fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the Before lad where he is. Chrift 18 Arife, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine cir. 1892. hand: for I will make him a great nation.

19 And God opened her eyes, and the faw a well of water: and the went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

26 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his hoft fpake unto Abraham, faying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

23 Now therefore fwear unto me here by God, † that thou wilt not deal falfly with me, thou shalt lie + Heb. If nor with my fon, nor with my fon's fon: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou fhalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou haft fojourned.

24 And Abraham faid, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech becaufe of a well of water, which Abimelech's fervants had violently taken away.

26 And Abimelech faid, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didft thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.

27 And Abraham took fheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech : and both of them made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech faid unto Abraham, What' mean these seven ewe-lambs, which thou haft set by themselves?

30 And he faid, For thefe feven ewe-lambs fhalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witnefs unto me, that I have digged this well.

unto me.

31 Wherefore he called that place Beer- That is, fheba: because there they fware both of them. the well of 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-fheba: the oath. cir. 1891. then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his hoft, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 ¶ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer- Or, tree. fheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

34 And Abraham fojourned in the Philiftines land many days.

CHAP. XXII.

1 Abraham is tempted to offer Ifaac: 3 He giveth proof of his faith and obedience: 11 The angel Stayeth him. 13 Ifaac is exchanged with a ram. 14 The place is called Jehovah-jireh. 15 Abraham is bleffed again, 20 The generation of Nahor unto Rebekah.

AND it came to pafs after these things, that

lifted up her voice, and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the lad: and' the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and faid unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar?

to him, Abraham. And he faid, † Behold, here Hebr. 11. I am:

17.

Before into the land of Moriah; and offer him there Chrift for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains 1872. which I will tell thee of.

+ Heb.

3¶ And Abraham rofe up early in the morning, and faddled his afs, and took two of his young men with him, and Ifaac his fon; and clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rofe up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and faw the place afar off.

5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide you here with the afs; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

6 And Abraham took the wood of the burntoffering, and laid it upon Ifaac his fon; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together.

7 And Ifaac fpake unto Abraham his father, and faid, My father: and he said, † Here am

Sarah's age and death.

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19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beerfheba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer-fheba.

20 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, faying, Behold, Milcah, the hath alfo borne children unto thy brother Nahor;

21 Huz his firft-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

22 And Chefed, and Hazo, and Pildafh, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

Chrift 1872.

Rom. 9.10 Rebecca,

23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: thefe eight Called, Milcah did bear to Nahor Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, the bare alfo Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahafh, and Maachah.

CHAP. XXIII.

The age and death of Sarah. 3 The purchase of Machpelah, 19 where Sarah was buried.

Or, kid. the wood: but where is the lamb for a burntoffering?

8 And Abraham faid, My fon, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: fo they went both of them together.

9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order; and bound Ifaac James 2. his fon, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

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10 And Abraham ftretched forth his hand, and took the knife to flay his fon.

11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and faid, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

12 And he faid, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou feareft God, seeing thou haft not withheld thy fon, thine only fon from

me.

13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the ftead of his fon.

14 And Abraham called the name of that That is, place Jehovah-jireh: as it is faid to this the LORD day, In the mount of the LORD it fhall be will fee, or, feen.

provide. 15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

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16 And faid, By myfelf have I fworn, faith the LORD, for because thou haft done this Ecclus 44. thing, and haft not withheld thy fon, thine only Luke 1.73. Son:

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Hebr. 6.13.

17 That in bleffing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy feed as the stars of the heaven, and as the fand which is upon the Heb. lip. fea + fhore; and thy feed fhall possess the gate Chap. 12. 3.& 18. 18. of his enemies;

Ecclus 44.

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18 And in thy feed shall all the nations of the earth be bleffed: because thou haft obeyed Acts 3. 25. my voice. Gal, 3. 8,

6 Hear us, my lord thou art + a mighty + Heb. a prince amongst us: in the choice of our fepul- prince of chres bury thy dead: none of us fhall withhold from thee his fepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

7 And Abraham ftood up and bowed himfelf to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my fight, hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the fon of Zohar:

9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for + as much money as it is worth he fhall † Heb. full give it me, for a poffeffion of a burying-place money. amongst you.

10 And Ephron dwelt amongst the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite anfwered Abraham in the + audience of the children of † Heb.cars. Heth, even of all that went in at the gates of his city, faying,

1 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the fons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

13 And he fpake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, faying, But if thou wilt give

Abraham purchaseth Machpelah:

Before give it, I pray thee hear me: I will give thee Christ money for the field; take it of me, and I will 1860. bury iny dead there.

1857.

+ Heb. gone into days.

14 And Ephron answered Abraham, faying unto him,

15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred fhekels of filver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

16 And Abraham hearkened un'o Éphron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the filver which he had named in the audience of the fons of Heth, four hundred shekels of filver, current money with the merchant.

17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made fure

18 Unto Abraham for a poffeffion, in the prefence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the fame is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

20 And the field, and the cave that is therein were made fure unto Abraham, for a poffeffion of a burying-place, by the fons of Heth.

CHAP. XXIV.

Abraham fweareth his fervant: 10 The fervant's journey: 12 His prayer: 14 His fign, 15 Re"bekah meeteth him, 18 fulfilleth bis fign, 22 receiveth jewels, 23 fheweth her kindred, 25 and inviteth him home. 26 The fervant bleffeth God: 29 Laban entertaineth him. 34 The fervant heweth his meffage: 50 Laban and Bethuel approve it. 58 Rebekah confenteth to go: 62 Ifaac meeteth her.

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ND Abraham was old and + well ftricken in age: and the LORD had bleffed Abraham in all things.

2 And Abraham faid unto his eldest servant of Chap. 47. his house, that ruled over all that he had, a Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

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3 And I will make thee fwear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites amongft whom I dwell:

4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my fon Ifaac.

5 And the fervant faid unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: muft I needs bring thy fon again unto the land from whence thou cameft?

6 And Abraham faid unto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my fon thither again.

7¶ The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and Chap. 12. that fware unto me, faying, Unto thy feed will 7. & 13. I give this land; he thall fend his angel before 15. & 15 thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my fon 18. & 26.4 from thence.

8 And if the woman will not be willing to

9 And the fervant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his matter, and fware to han concerning that matter.

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10 ¶ And the fervant took ten camels, of the camels of his mafter, and depared (for all the Or, and, goods of his mafter were in his hand :) and he arofe, and went to Mefopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

II And he made his camels to kneel down without the city, by a well of water, at the time of the evening, even the time + that women go + Heb. out to draw water:

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12 And he faid, O LORD God of my mafter whichdraw Abraham, I pray thee fend me good speed this water go forth. day, and thew kindness unto my mafter Abraham.

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13 Behold, I ftand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

14 And let it come to pass, that the damfel to whom I fhall fay, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and the thall fay, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink alfo: let the fame be the that thou hast appointed for thy fervant Ifaac; and thereby fhall I know that thou haft thewed kindness unto my master.

15¶ And it came to pafs before he had done fpeaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel fon of Milcah, the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

© Ver. 43.

16 And the damfel was + very fair to look † Heb. upon, a virgin, neither had any man known good of her and the went down to the well, and filled countenance, her pitcher, and came up.

17 And the fervant ran to meet her, and faid, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

18 And the faid, Drink, my lord. And the hafted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

19 And when the had done giving him drink, fhe faid, I will draw water for thy camels alfo, until they have done drinking.

zo And the hafted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

21 And the man, wondering at her, held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey profperous, or not.

22 And it came to pass as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring, | Or, jewel of half a thekel weight, and two bracelets for for the foreher hands, of ten hekels weight of gold;

23 And faid, Whofe daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's houfe for us to lodge in?

24 And the faid unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the fon of Milcah, which the bare unto Nahor.

25 She faid moreover unto him, We have both ftraw and provender enough, and room to lodge in, 26 And

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