TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
Read word by wordThus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
Read word by wordBut Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Read word by wordEarly the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Read word by wordHe looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordLot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
Read word by wordOne day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Read word by wordSo that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Read word by wordThe next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Read word by wordSo again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Read word by wordThus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Read word by wordThe older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
Read word by wordThe younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Read word by wordNow Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
Read word by wordAbraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Read word by wordOne night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Read word by wordNow Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?
Read word by wordThen God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Read word by wordEarly the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordAbimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
Read word by wordAbraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
Read word by wordBesides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Read word by wordSo when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Read word by wordSo Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
Read word by wordAnd Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”
Read word by wordThen Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
Read word by wordNow the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
Read word by wordSo Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
Read word by wordAnd Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
Read word by wordWhen his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Read word by wordThen Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Read word by wordShe added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Read word by wordSo the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Read word by wordBut Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
Read word by wordand 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!”
Read word by wordNow this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordEarly 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.
Read word by wordWhen the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Read word by wordThen she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Read word by wordThen God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
Read word by wordThen God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Read word by wordAnd God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
Read word by wordAnd while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordAt that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
Read word by wordAnd Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
Read word by wordBut when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
Read word by wordAbimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
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