And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

For twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”

(Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.