The King James Version of the Bible

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• 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. ¶382
• 19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. ¶383
• 19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. ¶384
• 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. ¶385
• 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. ¶386
• 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. ¶387
• 20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. ¶388
• 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. ¶389
• 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. ¶390
• 20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. ¶391
• 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. ¶392
• 20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. ¶393
• 20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. ¶394
• 20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. ¶395
• 20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. ¶396
• 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. ¶397
• 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved. ¶398
• 20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. ¶399
• 20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife. ¶400
• 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. ¶401
• 21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ¶402
• 21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. ¶403
• 21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. ¶404
• 21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ¶405
• 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. ¶406
• 21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. ¶407
• 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. ¶408
• 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. ¶409
• 21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. ¶410
• 21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. ¶411
• 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ¶412
• 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. ¶413
• 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. ¶414
• 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. ¶415
• 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. ¶416
• 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. ¶417
• 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. ¶418
• 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. ¶419
• 21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. ¶420
• 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. ¶421

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