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But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"

Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."

But he said, "Lord GOD, how may I know that I will possess it?"

Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

"But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me."

But Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your slave woman is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

"But he will be a wild donkey of a man; His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live in defiance of all his brothers."

"No longer shall you be named Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

"But as for an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."

Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, you shall not call her by the name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

But God said, "No, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

"But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

But the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?'

Sarah denied it, however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh."

And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said, "No, but we shall spend the night in the public square."

But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,

But they said, "Get out of the way!" They also said, "This one came in as a foreigner, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them!" So they pressed hard against Lot and moved forward to break the door.

But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.