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Genesis 18
Part 1 of 5
1 And YHWH appears to him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; 2 and he lifts up his eyes and looks, and behold, three men standing by him, and he sees, and runs to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bows himself toward the earth, 3 and he says, “My Lord, if now I have found grace in Your eyes, please do not pass on from Your servant; 4 please let a little water be accepted, and wash Your feet, and recline under the tree; 5 and I bring a piece of bread, and support Your heart; afterward pass on, for therefore You have passed over to Your servant”; and they say, “So may you do as you have spoken.” 6 And Abraham hurries toward the tent, to Sarah, and says, “Hurry three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes”; 7 and Abraham ran to the herd, and takes a son of the herd, tender and good, and gives to the young man, and he hurries to prepare it; 8 and he takes butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he has prepared, and sets before them; and he is standing by them under the tree, and they eat. 9 And they say to him, “Where [is] Sarah your wife?” And he says, “Behold—in the tent”; 10 and He says, “Returning I return to you, about the time of life, and behold, to Sarah your wife a son.” And Sarah is listening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him; 11 and Abraham and Sarah [are] aged, entering into days—the way of women has ceased to be to Sarah; 12 and Sarah laughs in her heart, saying, “After I have waxed old have I had pleasure? My lord [is] also old!” 13 And YHWH says to Abraham, “Why [is] this? Sarah has laughed, saying, Is it really true—I bear—and I am aged? 14 Is anything too wonderful for YHWH? At the appointed time I return to you, about the time of life, and Sarah has a son.” 15 And Sarah denies, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she has been afraid; and He says, “No, but you did laugh.” 16 And the men rise from there, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away; 17 and YHWH said, “Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing, 18 and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth? 19 For I have known him, that he commands his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of YHWH), to do righteousness and judgment, that YHWH may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken concerning him.” 20 And YHWH says, “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah—because great; and their sin—because exceedingly grievous: 21 I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming to Me they have done completely—and if not—I know”; 22 and the men turn from there, and go toward Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before YHWH. 23 And Abraham draws near and says, “Do You also consume righteous with wicked? 24 Perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; do You also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who [are] in its midst? 25 Far be it from You to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it has been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from You; does the Judge of all the earth not do justice?” 26 And YHWH says, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.” 27 And Abraham answers and says, “Now behold, I have willed to speak to the Lord, and I [am] dust and ashes; 28 perhaps there are lacking five of the fifty righteous—do You destroy for five the whole of the city?” And He says, “I do not destroy [it], if I find there forty-five.” 29 And he adds again to speak to Him and says, “Perhaps there are found there forty?” And He says, “I do not do [it], because of the forty.” 30 And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found there thirty?” And He says, “I do not do [it], if I find there thirty.” 31 And he says, “Now behold, I have willed to speak to the Lord: perhaps there are found there twenty?” And He says, “I do not destroy [it], because of the twenty.” 32 And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: perhaps there are found there ten?” And He says, “I do not destroy [it], because of the ten.” 33 And YHWH goes on, when He has finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham has turned back to his place.
Genesis 19
Part 2 of 5
1 And two of the messengers come toward Sodom at evening, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sees, and rises to meet them, and bows himself—face to the earth, 2 and he says, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet—then you have risen early and gone on your way”; and they say, “No, but we lodge in the broad place.” 3 And he presses on them greatly, and they turn aside to him, and come into his house; and he makes a banquet for them, and has baked unleavened things; and they eat. 4 Before they lie down, the men of the city—men of Sodom—have surrounded the house, from young even to aged, all the people from the extremity; 5 and they call to Lot and say to him, “Where [are] the men who have come to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and we know them.” 6 And Lot goes out to them, to the opening, and the door has shut behind him, 7 and says, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil; 8 now behold, I have two daughters who have not known anyone; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, for therefore they have come in within the shadow of my roof.” 9 And they say, “Come near here”; they also say, “This one has come to sojourn, and he certainly judges! Now, we do evil to you more than [to] them”; and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come near to break the door. 10 And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot to them, into the house, and have shut the door; 11 and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have struck with blindness, from small even to great, and they weary themselves to find the opening. 12 And the men say to Lot, “Whom have you here still? Son-in-law, your sons also, and your daughters, and all whom you have in the city, bring out from this place; 13 for we are destroying this place, for their cry has been great [before] the face of YHWH, and YHWH does send us to destroy it.” 14 And Lot goes out and speaks to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and says, “Rise, go out from this place, for YHWH is destroying the city”; and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 15 And when the dawn has ascended, then the messengers press on Lot, saying, “Rise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are found present, lest you are consumed in the iniquity of the city.” 16 And he lingers, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of YHWH to him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest outside the city. 17 And it comes to pass, when he has brought them outside, that he says, “Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stand in all the circuit; escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed.” 18 And Lot says to them, “Oh not [so], my lord; 19 now behold, your servant has found grace in your eyes, and you make great your kindness which you have done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me and I have died; 20 now behold, this city [is] near to flee there, and it [is] little; please let me escape there (is it not little?) that my soul may live.” 21 And he says to him, “Behold, I have also accepted your face for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which you have spoken; 22 hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your entering there”; therefore he calls the name of the city Zoar. 23 The sun has gone out on the earth, and Lot has entered into Zoar, 24 and YHWH has rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH, from the heavens; 25 and He overthrows these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground. 26 And his wife looks from behind him, and she becomes a pillar of salt! 27 And Abraham rises early in the morning to the place where he has stood [before] the face of YHWH; 28 and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace. 29 And it comes to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt. 30 And Lot goes up out of Zoar, and dwells in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he has been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwells in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn says to the younger, “Our father [is] old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us, as [is] the way of all the earth; 32 come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve a seed from our father.” 33 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the firstborn goes in and lies with her father, and he has not known in her lying down or in her rising up. 34 And it comes to pass, on the next day, that the firstborn says to the younger, “Behold, I have lain with my father last night: we also cause him to drink wine tonight, then go in, lie with him, and we preserve a seed from our father.” 35 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger rises and lies with him, and he has not known in her lying down or in her rising up. 36 And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father, 37 and the firstborn bears a son and calls his name Moab: he [is] father of Moab to this day. 38 As for the younger, she has also born a son and calls his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 20
Part 3 of 5
1 And Abraham journeys from there toward the land of the south, and dwells between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourns in Gerar; 2 and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, “She is my sister”; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah. 3 And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, “Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband.” 4 And Abimelech has not drawn near to her, and he says, “Lord, do you also slay a righteous nation? 5 Has he not himself said to me, She [is] my sister! And she, even she herself, said, He [is] my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocence of my hands, I have done this.” 6 And God says to him in the dream, “Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her; 7 and now send back the man’s wife, for he [is] inspired, and he prays for you, and you live; and if you do not send back, know that dying you die, you and all that you have.” 8 And Abimelech rises early in the morning, and calls for all his servants, and speaks all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly; 9 and Abimelech calls for Abraham and says to him, “What have you done to us? And what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Works which are not done you have done with me.” 10 Abimelech also says to Abraham, “What have you seen that you have done this thing?” 11 And Abraham says, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife; 12 and also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becomes my wife; 13 and it comes to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I say to her, This [is] your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He [is] my brother.” 14 And Abimelech takes sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gives to Abraham, and sends back his wife Sarah to him; 15 and Abimelech says, “Behold, my land [is] before you, where it is good in your eyes, dwell”; 16 and to Sarah he has said, “Behold, I have given one thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is to you a covering of eyes, to all who are with you”; and by all this she is reasoned with. 17 And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear: 18 for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 21
Part 4 of 5
1 And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken; 2 and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him; 3 and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac; 4 and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him. 5 And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him, 6 and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.” 7 She also says, “Who has said to Abraham, Sarah has suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?” 8 And the boy grows, and is weaned, and Abraham makes a great banquet in the day of Isaac’s being weaned; 9 and Sarah sees the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she has borne to Abraham, mocking, 10 and she says to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid has no possession with my son—with Isaac.” 11 And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son’s sake; 12 and God says to Abraham, “Let it not be wrong in your eyes because of the youth, and because of your handmaid: all that Sarah says to you—listen to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to you. 13 As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.” 14 And Abraham rises early in the morning, and takes bread, and a bottle of water, and gives to Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the boy, and sends her out; and she goes on, and goes astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba; 15 and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs. 16 And she goes and sits by herself opposite [him], far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the boy”; and she sits opposite [him], and lifts up her voice, and weeps. 17 And God hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calls to Hagar from the heavens and says to her, “What to you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of the youth where he [is]; 18 rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with your hand, for I set him for a great nation.” 19 And God opens her eyes, and she sees a well of water, and she goes and fills the bottle [with] water, and causes the youth to drink; 20 and God is with the youth, and he grows, and dwells in the wilderness, and is an archer; 21 and he dwells in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother takes for him a wife from the land of Egypt. 22 And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, “God [is] with you in all that you are doing; 23 and now, swear to me by God here: you do not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with you—do with me, and with the land in which you have sojourned.” 24 And Abraham says, “I swear.” 25 And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away, 26 and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.” 27 And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant; 28 and Abraham sets seven lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech says to Abraham, “What [are] they—these seven lambs which you have set by themselves?” 30 And he says, “For—the seven lambs you accept from my hand, so that it becomes a witness for me that I have dug this well”; 31 therefore he has called that place “Beer-Sheba,” for both of them have sworn there. 32 And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech rises—Phichol also, head of his host—and they return to the land of the Philistines; 33 and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God; 34 and Abraham sojourns in the land of the Philistines many days.
Genesis 22
Part 5 of 5
1 And it comes to pass after these things that God has tried Abraham and says to him, “Abraham”; and he says, “Here I [am].” 2 And He says, “Now take your son, your only one, whom you have loved, even Isaac, and go for yourself to the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak to you.” 3 And Abraham rises early in the morning, and saddles his donkey, and takes two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac, and he cleaves the wood of the burnt-offering, and rises and goes to the place of which God has spoken to him. 4 On the third day—Abraham lifts up his eyes, and sees the place from afar; 5 and Abraham says to his young men, “Remain by yourselves here with the donkey, and I and the youth go over there and worship, and return to you.” 6 And Abraham takes the wood of the burnt-offering, and places on his son Isaac, and he takes in his hand the fire, and the knife; and they go on both of them together. 7 And Isaac speaks to his father Abraham and says, “My father,” and he says, “Here I [am], my son.” And he says, “Behold, the fire and the wood, and where the lamb for a burnt-offering?” 8 And Abraham says, “God provides for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son”; and they go on both of them together. 9 And they come to the place of which God has spoken to him, and there Abraham builds the altar, and arranges the wood, and binds his son Isaac, and places him on the altar above the wood; 10 and Abraham puts forth his hand, and takes the knife—to slaughter his son. 11 And the Messenger of YHWH calls to him from the heavens and says, “Abraham, Abraham”; and he says, “Here I [am]”; 12 and He says, “Do not put forth your hand to the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that you are fearing God, and have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.” 13 And Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son; 14 and Abraham calls the name of that place “YHWH-Jireh,” because it is said this day in the mountain, “YHWH provides.” 15 And the Messenger of YHWH calls to Abraham a second time from the heavens, 16 and says, “I have sworn by Myself—a declaration of YHWH—that because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only one, 17 that blessing I bless you, and multiplying I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the seashore; and your Seed possesses the gate of His enemies; 18 and all nations of the earth have blessed themselves in your Seed, because you have listened to My voice.” 19 And Abraham turns back to his young men, and they rise and go together to Beer-Sheba; and Abraham dwells in Beer-Sheba. 20 And it comes to pass after these things that it is declared to Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah has borne, even she, sons to your brother Nahor: 21 his firstborn Huz, and his brother Buz; and Kemuel father of Aram, 22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel; 23 and Bethuel has begotten Rebekah”; Milcah has borne these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother; 24 and his concubine, whose name [is] Reumah, she also has borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah. Genesis 18:1-22:24, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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