Genesis 18:16-19
Abraham’s Plea for Sodom

16.) The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.
17.) Then the Lord said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?
18.) Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
19.) For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him.”


1 John 2:15-17
A Warning about the World

15.) Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
16.) For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17.) And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.



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Hagar and Ishmael
Chapter 16
1.) Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
2.) Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
3.) So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.
4.) He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she treated her mistress with contempt.
5.) Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”

6.) Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

7.) The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. 8.) He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

9.) Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”
10.) The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

11.) Then the Angel of the Lord said to her:

You have conceived and will have a son.
You will name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
12.) This man will be like a wild donkey.
His hand will be against everyone,
and everyone’s hand will be against him;
he will live at odds with all his brothers.

13.) So she called the Lord who spoke to her: The God Who Sees, for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the One who sees me?”
14.) That is why she named the spring, “A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.” It is located between Kadesh and Bered.

15.) So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son Hagar had.
16.) Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Chapter 14 - 15

Chapter 14
Abram Rescues Lot
1.) In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
2.) waged war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, as well as the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
3.) All of these came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).
4.) They were subject to Chedorlaomer for 12 years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
5.) In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
6.) and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness.
7.) Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they defeated all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

8.) Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and lined up for battle in the Valley of Siddim
9.) against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
10.) Now the Valley of Siddim contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.
11.) The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.
12.) They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.

13.) One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.
14.) When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.
15.) And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.
16.) He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

Genesis 11:10-13:18

From Shem to Abram
10.) These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11.) After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
12.) Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.
13.) After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
14.) Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber.
15.) After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
16.) Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.
17.) After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
18.) Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu.
19.) After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
20.) Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug.
21.) After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
22.) Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.
23.) After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
24.) Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.
25.) After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
26.) Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27.) These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
28.) Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.
29.) Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
30.) Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

31.) Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32.) Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.