Bible reading for today( sorry it is late) Gen 15:1 After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward. Gen 15:2 And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me. Gen 15:3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage. Gen 15:4 Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you. Gen 15:5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be. Gen 15:6 And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness. Gen 15:7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage. Gen 15:8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? Gen 15:9 And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. Gen 15:10 All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two. Gen 15:11 And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away. Gen 15:12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. Gen 15:13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; Gen 15:14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. Gen 15:15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place. Gen 15:16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full. Gen 15:17 Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. Gen 15:18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: Gen 15:19 The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, Gen 15:20 And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, Gen 15:21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. Gen 16:1 Now Sarai, Abrams wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar. Gen 16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said. Gen 16:3 So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife. Gen 16:4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her masters wife. Gen 16:5 And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me. Gen 16:6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her. Gen 16:7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur. Gen 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarais servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my masters wife. Gen 16:9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority. Gen 16:10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered. Gen 16:11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow. Gen 16:12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every mans hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers. Gen 16:13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living? Gen 16:14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered. Gen 16:15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael. Gen 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Gen 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things, Gen 17:2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased. Gen 17:3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said, Gen 17:4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end. Gen 17:5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. Gen 17:6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring. Gen 17:7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. Gen 17:8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God. Gen 17:9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations. Gen 17:10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision. Gen 17:11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you. Gen 17:12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed. Gen 17:13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time. Gen 17:14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him. Gen 17:15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah. Gen 17:16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring. Gen 17:17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth? Gen 17:18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmaels life might be your care! Gen 17:19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him. Gen 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. Gen 17:21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time. Gen 17:22 And having said these words, God went up from Abraham. Gen 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him. Gen 17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision. Gen 17:25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision. Gen 17:26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day. Gen 17:27 And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him. Gen 18:1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day; Gen 18:2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth; Gen 18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant: Gen 18:4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree: Gen 18:5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so. Gen 18:6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes. Gen 18:7 And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready; Gen 18:8 And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food. Gen 18:9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent. Gen 18:10 And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door. Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth. Gen 18:12 And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old? Gen 18:13 And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child? Gen 18:14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child. Gen 18:15 Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing. Gen 18:16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way. Gen 18:17 And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do; Gen 18:18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing? Gen 18:19 For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said. Gen 18:20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil, Gen 18:21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see. Gen 18:22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord. Gen 18:23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners? Gen 18:24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? Gen 18:25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right? Gen 18:26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them. Gen 18:27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: Gen 18:28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five. Gen 18:29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty. Gen 18:30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. Gen 18:31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. Gen 18:32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten. Gen 18:33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place. Gen 19:1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. Gen 19:2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servants house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our nights rest in the street. Gen 19:3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. Gen 19:4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; Gen 19:5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. Gen 19:6 And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. Gen 19:7 And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. Gen 19:8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. Gen 19:9 And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. Gen 19:10 But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. Gen 19:11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. Gen 19:12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; Gen 19:13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. Gen 19:14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. Gen 19:15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. Gen 19:16 But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. Gen 19:17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. Gen 19:18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; Gen 19:19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; Gen 19:20 This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. Gen 19:21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. Gen 19:22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. Gen 19:23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. Gen 19:24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. Gen 19:25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. Gen 19:26 But Lots wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. Gen 19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: Gen 19:28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. Gen 19:29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living. Gen 19:30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock. Gen 19:31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: Gen 19:32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father, Gen 19:33 And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. Gen 19:34 And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father. Gen 19:35 And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. Gen 19:36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. Gen 19:37 And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day. Gen 19:38 And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day. Gen 20:1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar. Gen 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah. Gen 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a mans wife. Gen 20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation? Gen 20:5 Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this. Gen 20:6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her. Gen 20:7 So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house. Gen 20:8 So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear. Gen 20:9 Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done. Gen 20:10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing? Gen 20:11 And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife. Gen 20:12 And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: Gen 20:13 And when God sent me wandering from my fathers house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother. Gen 20:14 Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah. Gen 20:15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you. Gen 20:16 And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of all. Gen 20:17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children. Gen 20:18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abrahams wife. Gen 21:1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken. Gen 21:2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God. Gen 21:3 And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac. Gen 21:4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him. Gen 21:5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place. Gen 21:6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me. Gen 21:7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old. Gen 21:8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast. Gen 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac. Gen 21:10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. Gen 21:11 And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son. Gen 21:12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name. Gen 21:13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed. Gen 21:14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba. Gen 21:15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree. Gen 21:16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child. Gen 21:17 And the boys cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the childs cry has come to the ears of God. Gen 21:18 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation. Gen 21:19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink. Gen 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land. Gen 21:21 And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt. Gen 21:22 Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do. Gen 21:23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living. Gen 21:24 And Abraham said, I will give you my oath. Gen 21:25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelechs servants had taken by force. Gen 21:26 But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day. Gen 21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together. Gen 21:28 And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves. Gen 21:29 Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side? Gen 21:30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole. Gen 21:31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths. Gen 21:32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines. Gen 21:33 And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. Gen 21:34 And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.
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