Let tntertaneik two angels. Chap

r. And be slid, Behold now, my lords, turn in. I pray you, into your servant's house, aad tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye (hall rife up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but ■t will abide in the street all night.

3 And he pressed upon them greatly; aad they turned in unto him, and entered 'ado his bouse; and he made them a ieax, wd did bake unleavened bread, aud tary did eat.

t But before they lay down, the men cf the city, *"*w»tt»e men of Sodom, com pissed the house round, both old and y aung, all thepeopletrom every quarter:

j Aad they called unto Lot, and skid unto him, Where are the men "which cute in to thee this night? bring them oat onto us, that we may know them.

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

7 And (kid, 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 inadow of sy roof.

5 And they said, Stand back. And they bid *ga*M, This onefclloiv came in to sojourn, and fae will needs be a judge; aow'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.

io But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, ind ttmt to the door.

• i And they smote the men that tuere at the door of the house with blindness, both final] and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

11 Aad the men {aid unto Lot, Hast «fcoo here any besides? son in law, and «ky sons, and thy daughters, and wbatwCTtr thou hast in the city, bring them ■Kt of this place:

15 For we will destroy this place, bet** fae cry of them is waxen great fcfcre the face of the Lord; and the Loio hath sent us to destroy k. _ 14 And Lot went out and spake unto hit fboj in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of tai* place j for the Lord will destroy this dry. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

15 And when the morning arose, then «he angels hastened Lot, faying, Arise, tike thy wife, and thy two daughters,

. xix. The deJhuS'tonpf Sedom.

which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

16 And while be lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon die hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his twodaughters; theLo R D beingmerciful unto him 1 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 for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

iS And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

19 Behold now, tby servant hath sound grace in thy light, and thou haft magnihed thy mercy, which thou hast (hewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

10 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 soul shall live.

21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

ax Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

13 The fun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24. f Then the Loud rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lo R D out of heaven »

25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

_ 26 «J B u t his wise looked back from behind him, and stiebecame a pillar of lalt.

27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Loud:

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

19 And it came to pass* when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and {eat 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 Zoaf, and

dwelt in the mountain, and his tw»

daughter* with him; for be seared to

B 2 dwell

dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 tj 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 earth:

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

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

34. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of 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 (he lay down, nor when stie arose.

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

37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the fame is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a sen, and called his name Ben-ammi s the fame is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

CHAP. XX.

1 Abraham denittk his ivife, and loseth

her. 14 Abimelech rejioreth her.

AND Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesli and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah hie wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to AbimeUch in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for fiie is a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

5SaidTienotuntome, She is my sister? ami fiie, even lhe herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

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

7 Now therefore restore the man his

wife; for he is a prophet, and he sli; pray for thee, and thou (halt live: and thou rellore^rnot, know thou that th< shalt surely die, thou, and all thafrzrvthin

8 Therefore Abimelech rose early the morning, and called all his servant and told all these things in their ear and the men were sore afraid.

9 Then Abimelech called Abrahai: and said unto him, What hast thou doi unto us ? and what have I offended the that thou hast brought on me and on rr kingdomagreat fin? thou hast done deec unto me that ought not to be done.

10 And Abimelech said unto Abn ham, What safest thou, that thou ha done this thing?

11 And Abraham said, Because thought, Surely the fear of God is nc in this place: and they will slay me fc my wise's fake.

■ 11 And yet indeed Jhe is my sister she is the daughter of my father, bu not the daughter of my mother; and ih became my wife.

13 And it came to pass, when G01 caused me to wander from my father' house, that I said unto her, This is th; kindness which thou malt sliew unti me; at every place whither we slia! come, fay of me, He is my brother.

14 f And Abimelech took sheep, aru oxen, and menservants, and women servants, and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife.

i< And Abimelech said, Behold, m\ land is before thee: dwell where 11 pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, 1 have given thy brother a thousand piece: of silver: behold, hew to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and withalloM/r.- thus she was reproved.

17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they haztchiUren,

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

CHAP. XXI. z Isaac is born. 9 Hagar andIJhmaelare cast firth. »x Abisntlech's covenant •with Abraham.

AND the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

x «^ For Sarah 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, Isaac.

Isaac beiag eight days old, as God had comrsasded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundred years cad, when his son Isaac was born unto ba.

€ Aad Sarah (aid, God hath made me a laugh.yi that all that bear will laugh «ittnK.

7 Aai&e laid, Who would have said vuu» Abraham, that Sarah mould have rjrni children fuck: for I have borne car a son in his old age.

t Aad the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feall the _'«* day that Isaac was weaned.

9 *J And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Ahracam, mocking.

Io Wherefore (he laid unto Abraham, Cift out this bondwoman and her son: for the ion of this bondwoman (hall not he heir with my son, even with Isaac.

u And the thing was very grievous ;?. Abraham's sight, because of his son. is And God (aid unto Abraham, Let it aot be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman.; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Ik uusl thy seed be called.

rj And alto of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because htirlhy seed.

i+ And Abraham rose up early in the corning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, .putting it on her shoulder, and the child, aed sent her away: and (he departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beerfceba.

15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and (he cast the child under one eftheslu-ubs.

16 And she went, and fat her down •ver against him a good way off, as it *ere a bowsoot: for she said, Let me tat fee the death of the child. And fe* fa over against him, and lift up her »ace, and wept.

17 And God beard the voice of the Wj and tbe angel of God called to Hgarout of heaven, and said unto her, Wait aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad "here he is.

it Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him ia thine band; for I will make him a great nation.

19 And God opened her eyes, and she rix t wed of water; and (he went, and «IW. the bottle with water, and gave it bd drink.

grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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

11 «J And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol tbe chief captain of his host (pake unto Abraham, saying, God it with thee in all that thou doest:

13 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsly with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son 1 but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou (halt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

1+ And AUraham said, I will swear.

15 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because ofawell of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

16 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

17 And Abraham took flieep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

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

19 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

30 And he said, For these (even ewe lambs (halt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-fheba; because there they (ware both of them.

32ThustheymadeacovenantatBeerslieba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-slieba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

3+ And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

CHAP. XXII. 3 Abraham offering Isaac, 11 is stayed by an

angel: 15 he it blessed again. 10 The

generation os Nahor unto Rebekah.

AND it came to pass after these tilings that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

1 And he said, Take now thy son, thine

only^ow Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get

thee into the land os Moriali; and oner

him there for a burnt offering upon one

B3' of

it (large H ku servant, Chap, dridrea « Heth, even of ail chat went in it the poe of bu city, saying,

i:\i7.myb.-a,hearme: thetieldgive lite, and the ave that*/therein, I give '• aes; in the presence of the sons of my people grre I it thee •. bury thy dead.

11 Asa Abraham bowed down himUi hrfore the people of the land.

i) And he spake unto Ephron in the lsdaacc of the people of the land, faying; Jatif thowwittgive it, I pray thee, har«: I will give thee money for the x-i, :±e u of me, and I will bury my dad there.

• - And Ephroa answered Abraham, frying unto him,

■5 My lord, hearken unto me: the tad is icsrth four hundred shekels of tlrer; what is that betwixt me and tset» bay therefore thy dead.

i< And Abraham hearkened unto Ephrao; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the ilver, which he had named :o tit audience of the. sons of Heth, few hundred shekels of silver, current ■■9 with the merchant.

<7 And the field of Ephron, which wwinMachpelah, which •was before Mart, the held and the cave which Wftiaeia, and all the trees that -were •fcidd, thifwere in all the borders r*ad about, were made sure

tSUnto Abraham for a possession in the preitau of the children of Heth, before «u that went in at the gate of his city.

19 f And after this, Abraham buried *** hit wife in the cave of the field 0! MathneUh, before Mamre: the fame "Hebron 'ut the land ot Canaan. .*» And the field, and the cave that it TM*'Bi **« wude sure unto Abraham "» » possession of a buryingplacc,. by ikkaiofHeth.

CHAP. XXIV. 1ar Am sendetk fas servant to gel a

1*4'far to son Isaac. 58 He obtaineth

*<Mi*. 6» Isaac meiteth her.

^•I'D Abraham was old, ami well incken in age: and the I,o R 0 had «*d Abraham in alt things.

"And Abraham said unto his eldest TM]** «f his house, that ruled over all •Wnt had, put, I pray thee, thy hand »^ my thigh,/ 7'

1 Aad 1 will make thee swear by the ^•".the God of heaven, and the God *Jfj* earth, that thou ihalt not take a To onto my son of the daughters of

* jjttMnitet, among whom I dwell: *niit thou (halt go unto my country,

"" to ray kindred, and take a wife ^nvfouaac.

xxi v. iv/10 meiteth Rcbekah at the well.

5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou earnest >

6 And Abraham laid unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

7 The Lor D God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land j he shall fend his angel before thee, and thou fiiatt take a wife unto my son from thence.

8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

10 And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master tuere in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

11 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 out to draw water.

11 And he said, O Lord God os my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and thew kindness unto my master Abraham.

13 Behold, 1 stand 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 damsel to whom I (hall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and f will give thy camels drink also -. let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby (hall I know that thou bast shewed kindness unto my master.

15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abra* ham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel war very shir to look u pon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and (he went down to the well, and silled her pitcher, and came up.

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

18 And me said, Drink my lord: and B* *•