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And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

Genesis 15

And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.

Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.

For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,

Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.