Lot fleeth from Sodom. 6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

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

8 Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, g and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 9 And they said, Stand back. And .they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, hand he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore 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 shut to the door. 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: Bo that they wearied themselves to

find the door.

1 Ki. 19.3. q ver.26.

r 1 Ti. 1.14.

Sodom destroyed.

hast r magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape tc the mountain, s lest some evil take me, and 1 die:

20 Behold now this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: t Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.u 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted 3 thee v concerning this thing also, that I will not over throw this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither, fut I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called 4 Zoar.

23 The sun was 5 risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone z and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25 And he overthrew those cities, habitants of the cities, and that and all the plain, and all the inwhich grew y upon the ground.

26 T But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became za pillar of salt.

27 T And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the pla e where a he stood before the LORD:

and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

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

15 T And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the 2 iniquity of the city.

16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful o unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17¶And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape p for thy life; q look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not So, my Lord!

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thv sight, and thou

t Pr.3.5-7. u Ps. 119.175. Is.55.3.

3

thy face.

v ch.4.7. Job.42.8,9.

Jer. 14.10. w ch.32.26.

Ex.32.10.
Deut.9.14.

Mark 6.5.

4 i. e. little. gone forth. De.29.23.

Job 18.15.
Ps. 11.6.
Is. 13. 19.
Jer.49.18.
50.40.
Lam.4.6.
Eze. 16.49.
Am.4.11.
Zep.2.9.

lo, the smoke of the country went up as the b smoke of a furnace.

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

30 T And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the d 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 firstborn said 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 carth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with Ma.11.23. him, that we may preserve seed of 2 Per.2.6. our father. Jude 7. y Ps. 107.34. z Lu. 17.32. a ch.18.22. b Rev. 19.3. c Ps. 145.20. d ver. 17,19. e Pr.23.31

33.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: eand the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the irstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us

Moab and Ammon born.

our father.

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

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. f 37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites gunto this day.

Hab.2.15. g De.2.9.19. 23.3.

h Ne. 13.1.

Is. 11.11.
Zep.2.9.

(CHAP. 20.) a ch.16.7, 14. b ch.25.6.

c ch.12.13.

26.7.

Ps. 105.14.

38 And the younger, she also bared Job 33.15. a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the Achildren of Ammon unto this day. CHAPTER XX.

Abraham derieth his wife, and looseth her: 14 Abimelech restoreth her.

1 married to an hus band.

e 1Chr.21.17.

hast done this thing?

11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God m is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

12 And yet indeed she is my n sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto

thence toward the south coun

city, or sincerity.

try, and dwelled between Kadesh and a Shur, and sojourned in Ge-f2 Ki.20.3. rar. b

2 Cor. 1. 12. 1 Ti. 1. 13.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She c is my sister: and Abi- 5 ch.31.7. melech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

35.5. h Ps.51.4. 3 But d God came to Abimelech ini 1 Sam.7 5. a dream by night, and said to him. Job.42.8. Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast ta-k Ex.32.21. ken; for she is 1 a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, e wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the 2 integrity f of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

Jam.5.16.

Jos.7.25.

ch.34.7.

m Ne.5.15.

Ps.36.1. Pr. 16.6. n ch.11.29 o ch.47.6.

3 as is good in thine

eyes.

6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, 1 know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; p Pr.12.1. for I also g withheld thee from sinning hagainst me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he hall pray for thee, and thou shal, live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thune.

his wife.

15 And Abimelech said, Behold, omy land is before thee: dwell 3 where it pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was preproved.

17 So Abraham prayed uato God and God healed Abimeleca, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

CHAPTER XXI. 2 Isaac is born. 9 Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth. 22 Abimelech's covenant with Abraham.

AND the LORD a visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD di unto Sarah as bhe had spoken.

2 For Sarah c conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him. whom Sarah bare to him, d Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him. e

5 And Abraham was an hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.

6T And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, f so that all that near will laugh with me.

7 And she said, Who would have

1 offended thee, that thou hast !rought on me and on my kingdom ka great sin? thou hast done deeds!

Ps.86.10. Ep.3.20.

should have given children suck! for I have born him a son in lus old age.

young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and c laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together.

Jno.19.17. 2 behold me, 3 or, kid. ver.2,8, 13. d Jno.1.29

Rev.5.6.

e Ps. 118.27. Jno.10.17,

18.

7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And fHeb.11.17. he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the 3 lamb for a burnt offering?

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb d for a burnt offering: so 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 elsaac his son, and flaid him on the altar apon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay

his son.

4

1 Sa. 15.22. Ps.25.12.

147.11. Mal.4.2.

1Cor.10.13.

2 Cor. 1.9, 10.

i. e. the

Dan.3.17. 2 Cor.1.9,

11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: gand hem ver. 11. said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: h for now I know that thou fearest God, i seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

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

10.

n Ps. 105.9. Is.45.23. Luke 1.73. Heb.6.13, 14.

o Deut. 1.10. Jer.33.22. p ch. 12.3. 5 lip. 1 Sam.2.30.

Jer.7.23.

r Job 1.1.

s Job 32.2.

his son. 14 And Abraham called the name t ch.24.15. of that place 4 Jehovah-jireh: as it 6 Rebecca. is said to this day, In the mount of

the LORD it shall be seen.

Rom.9.10.

15 And the angel of the LORD (CHAP. 23). called unto Abraham out of heaven a Jos. 14.15. the second time,

Ju. 1.10.

ch. 13.18.

Death of Sarah.

| went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

16 And said, By myself have Inb ver. 19. sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only c 1Chr.29.15.

2 Sam.5.3.

Ps.39.12. 105.12.

Heb. 11.9.

1Pet.2.11.

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars o of the heaven, and as the sand which is d Ac.7.5. upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his ene

mies.

1 a prince of God. e ch.13.2.

18 And in thy seed shall all the na-2 full tions of the earth be blessed; pbe

14.14.

money.

case thou hast obeyed qmy voice. 3 ears. 19 So Abraham returned unto his fch.34.20,24. Toung men; and they rose up, and i

20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

21 Huzr his firstborn, and Buzs his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

23 And Bethuel begat t 6 Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

CHAPTER XXIII. 1 Sarah's age and death. 3 Purchase of Machpelah, 19 where Sarah was buried.

AND Sarah was an hundred and

seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; a the same is Hebron b in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

3 T And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

4 I am a stranger c and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may d bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince é among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself 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 f should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for 2 as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in tne 3 audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate f of his city, saving,

11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that