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Genesis · read by Bill Randles
167 verses, in order. Only the verses Bill read aloud are shown.
Genesis 6
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.Read from KJV · The Flood
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So the LORD said, "I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."Read from KJV · The Flood
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This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.Read from KJV · The Flood
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And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.Read from KJV · The Flood
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Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.Read from NKJV · The Flood
Genesis 7
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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.Read from KJV · The Flood
Genesis 8
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But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the arkRead from ESV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease."Read from NASB1995 · The New Creation and the New Fall
Genesis 9
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The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.Read from NASB1995 · The New Creation and the New Fall
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But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.Read from NKJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.Read from ESV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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He also declared: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant."Read from KJV · The New Creation and the New Fall
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So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.Read from ESV · The New Creation and the New Fall
Genesis 11
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This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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During his father Terah's lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring. " So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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When Pharaoh's officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
Genesis 13
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So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.Read from KJV · The Meaning of Abraham
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to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
Genesis 14
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went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High —Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
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and he blessed Abram and said: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from KJV · Abraham and Lot
Genesis 15
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But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"Read from KJV · The Covenant
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And the LORD took him outside and said, "Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able." Then He told him, "So shall your offspring be."Read from KJV · The Covenant
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And the LORD said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon."Read from KJV · The Covenant
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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."Read from KJV · The Covenant
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.Read from KJV · The Covenant
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—Read from KJV · The Covenant
Genesis 16
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So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."Read from NKJV · The True and False Seed
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Then the angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: "You are the God who sees me, " for she said, "Here I have seen the One who sees me!"Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.Read from ESV · The True and False Seed
Genesis 17
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Read from NKJV · The True and False Seed
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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"Read from ESV · The True and False Seed
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But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
Genesis 18
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Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread."Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.Read from ESV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 19
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Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it."Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD's compassion for them.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.Read from NKJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
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The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.Read from KJV · Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 21
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Then Sarah said, "God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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She added, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."Read from NKJV · The True and False Seed
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Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
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And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · The True and False Seed
Genesis 22
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Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.Read from ESV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" "Here I am, my son," he replied. "The fire and the wood are here," said Isaac, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Abraham answered, "God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two walked on together.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Some time later, Abraham was told, "Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nahor.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
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Moreover, Nahor's concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Read from NKJV · God Will Provide Himself a Lamb