Then they said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens<n id="1" /> so that<n id="2" /> we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise<n id="3" /> we will be scattered<n id="4" /> across the face of the entire earth.&#8221;p>

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go<n id="1" /> to the left, then I&#8217;ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I&#8217;ll go to the left.&#8221;p>

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled<n id="1" /> toward the east.p> <p class="bodytext">So the relatives separated from each other.<n id="2" />

Then they attacked En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) again,<n id="1" /> and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.p>

He retrieved all the stolen property.<n id="1" /> He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of<n id="2" /> the people.p>

that I will take nothing<n id="1" /> belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, &#8216;It is I<n id="2" /> who made Abram rich.&#8217;

So Abram<n id="1" /> took all these for him and then cut them in two<n id="2" /> and placed each half opposite the other,<n id="3" /> but he did not cut the birds in half.

I will give the whole land of Canaan &#8211; the land where you are now residing<n id="1" /> &#8211; to you and your descendants after you as a permanent<n id="2" /> possession. I will be their God.&#8221;p>

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep:<n id="1" /> Every male among you must be circumcised.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> replied, &#8220;If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.&#8221;p>

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy<n id="1" /> the whole city because five are lacking?&#8221;<n id="2" /> He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.&#8221;p>

Before they could lie down to sleep,<n id="1" /> all the men &#8211; both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom &#8211; surrounded the house.<n id="2" />

Then the two visitors<n id="1" /> said to Lot, &#8220;Who else do you have here?<n id="2" /> Do you have<n id="3" /> any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city?<n id="4" /> Get them out of this<n id="5" /> place

He looked out toward<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region.<n id="2" /> As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.<n id="3" />p>

Later the older daughter said<n id="1" /> to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby<n id="2" /> to have sexual relations with us,<n id="3" /> according to the way of all the world.

For the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> had caused infertility to strike every woman<n id="2" /> in the household of Abimelech because he took<n id="3" /> Sarah, Abraham&#8217;s wife.p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you<n id="1" /> in all that you do.

<p class="bodytext">(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite<n id="1" /> replied to Abraham in the hearing<n id="2" /> of the sons of Heth &#8211; before all who entered the gate<n id="3" /> of his city &#8211;

Abraham said to his servant, the senior one<n id="1" /> in his household who was in charge of everything he had, &#8220;Put your hand under my thigh<n id="2" />

She quickly emptied<n id="1" /> her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.