And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
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Genesis 16
Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.
All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).
And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
Genesis 14
And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
Genesis 10
And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
Genesis 12
And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.