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Genesis · read by W.F. Anderson
107 verses, in order. Only the verses W.F. read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
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Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Read from KJV · Sin
Genesis 12
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.Read from KJV · The Life of Abraham - Part 1
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From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 2
Genesis 14
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The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer's army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High —Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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and he blessed Abram and said: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,Read from NASB1995 · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
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I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 3
Genesis 15
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Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, "This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 4
Genesis 16
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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"Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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"Hagar, servant of Sarai," he said, "where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she replied.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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So the angel of the LORD told her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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The angel of the LORD proceeded: "Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.Read from NKJV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 5
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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."Read from NKJV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.Read from NKJV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 6
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But God replied, "Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.Read from NASB1995 · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
Genesis 18
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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So the LORD replied, "If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?" He replied, "If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, "Suppose forty are found there?" He answered, "On account of the forty, I will not do it."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?" He replied, "If I find thirty there, I will not do it."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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And Abraham said, "Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?" He answered, "On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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Finally, Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?" And He answered, "On account of the ten, I will not destroy it."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
Genesis 19
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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 ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 7
Genesis 20
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Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Didn't Abraham tell me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you."Read from NKJV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Abraham replied, "I thought to myself, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.'Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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So when God had me journey from my father's house, I said to Sarah, 'This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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And Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
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for on account of Abraham's wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech's household.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 8
Genesis 23
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She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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"I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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"If you are willing for me to bury my dead," he said to them, "listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalfRead from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site."Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded overRead from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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to Abraham's possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9
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So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.Read from ESV · The Life of Abraham - Part 9