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- Genesis 17:5
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No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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- Genesis 17:9
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God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
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- Genesis 17:15
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Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
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- Genesis 17:17
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Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
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- Genesis 17:18
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And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
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- Genesis 17:22
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When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
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- Genesis 17:23
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
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- Genesis 17:24
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So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
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- Genesis 17:26
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
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- Genesis 18:6
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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
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- Genesis 18:7
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Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
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- Genesis 18:11
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And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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- Genesis 18:13
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And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
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- Genesis 18:16
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When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
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- Genesis 18:17
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And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
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- Genesis 18:18
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Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
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- Genesis 18:19
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For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
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- Genesis 18:22
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And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
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- Genesis 18:23
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Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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- Genesis 18:27
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Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
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- Genesis 18:33
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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
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- Genesis 19:27
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Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
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- Genesis 19:29
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
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- Genesis 20:1
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Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
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- Genesis 20:2
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Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
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- Genesis 20:9
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Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
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- Genesis 20:10
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Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
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- Genesis 20:11
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Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
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- Genesis 20:14
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So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
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- Genesis 20:17
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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
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- Genesis 20:18
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for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
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- Genesis 21:2
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
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- Genesis 21:3
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And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
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- Genesis 21:4
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
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- Genesis 21:5
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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- Genesis 21:7
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She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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- Genesis 21:8
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So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
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- Genesis 21:9
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But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
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- Genesis 21:10
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and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
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- Genesis 21:11
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Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
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- Genesis 21:12
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But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
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- Genesis 21:14
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Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
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- Genesis 21:22
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At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
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- Genesis 21:24
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And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
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- Genesis 21:25
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But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
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- Genesis 21:27
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So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
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- Genesis 21:28
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Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
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- Genesis 21:29
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and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
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- Genesis 21:34
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And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
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- Genesis 22:1
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Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
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