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SARAI AND HAGAR ABRAM’S SON ISHMAEL
So Sarai said to Abram, “See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.
After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife
GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAM
On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates
ABRAM RESCUES LOT AND IS BLESSED BY MELCHIZEDEK
Melchizedek king of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) brought out bread and wine [for them]; he was the priest of God Most High.
And Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, “Blessed (joyful, favored) be Abram by God Most High, Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth.
ABRAM AT HEBRON LOT TAKEN CAPTIVE
Abram at Hebron. Lot taken captive.
Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the LORD. Lot Taken Captive. And they also took [captive] Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and left, for he was living in Sodom.
ABRAM AND LOT SEPARATE
Abram And Lot Separate. So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife and disagreement between you and me, nor between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, because we are relatives.
ABRAM AND SARAI IN EGYPT
Abram and Sarai in Egypt. Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.
GOD’S CALL AND PROMISE TO ABRAM
Now [in Haran] the LORD had said to Abram, “Go away from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you.
THE GENERATIONS UNTIL ABRAM
The Generations Until Abram. Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.
BABEL AND CONFUSION OF TONGUES
They said, “Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top will reach into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] and be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the LORD instructed].”
ALL THE NATIONS DESCENDED FROM NOAH
These are the records of the generations (descendants) of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the sons born to them after the flood all nations Descended from Noah.