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JANUARY 10
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when And she, even she herself said, ‘He is my
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Lot entered Zoar. Then the LORD rained brim- brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and inno-
stone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from cence of my hands I have done this.”
the LORD out of the heavens. So He overthrew 6 And God said to him in a dream, “Yes, I know
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those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of that you did this in the integrity of your heart.
the cities, and what grew on the ground. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me;
26 But his wife looked back behind him, and therefore I did not let you touch her. Now
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she became a pillar of salt. therefore, restore the man’s wife; for he is a
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall
the place where he had stood before the LORD. live. But if you do not restore her, know that you
28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, 8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning,
and behold, the smoke of the land which went called all his servants, and told all these things
up like the smoke of a furnace. And it came to in their hearing; and the men were very much
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pass, when God destroyed the cities of the afraid. And Abimelech called Abraham and said
plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent to him, “What have you done to us? How have I
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He offended you, that you have brought on me
overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done
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30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in deeds to me that ought not to be done.” Then
the mountains, and his two daughters were Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you
with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And have in view, that you have done this thing?”
he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. Now 11 And Abraham said, “Because I thought,
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the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is surely the fear of God is not in this place; and
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old, and there is no man on the earth to come in they will kill me on account of my wife. But
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to us as is the custom of all the earth. Come, indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daugh-
let us make our father drink wine, and we will ter of my father, but not the daughter of my
lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage mother; and she became my wife. And it
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of our father.” So they made their father came to pass, when God caused me to wander
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drink wine that night. And the firstborn went from my father’s house, that I said to her,
in and lay with her father, and he did not know ‘This is your kindness that you should do for
when she lay down or when she arose. me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me,
34 It happened on the next day that the first- “He is my brother.” ’ ”
born said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with 14 Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male
my father last night; let us make him drink and female servants, and gave them to Abraham;
wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with and he restored Sarah his wife to him. And
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him, that we may preserve the lineage of our Abimelech said, “See, my land is before you;
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father.” Then they made their father drink dwell where it pleases you.” Then to Sarah
wine that night also. And the younger arose he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a
and lay with him, and he did not know when thousand pieces of silver; indeed this vindi-
she lay down or when she arose. cates you before all who are with you and
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with before everybody.” Thus she was rebuked.
child by their father. The firstborn bore a son 17 So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed
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and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants.
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Moabites to this day. And the younger, she also Then they bore children; for the LORD had
bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he closed up all the wombs of the house of
is the father of the people of Ammon to this day. Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
And Abraham journeyed from there to Psalm 6:1–5
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and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. Now Abraham To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.
said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And On an eight-stringed harp.
A Psalm of David.
Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by
night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead O LORD, do not rebuke me in
Your anger,
man because of the woman whom you have Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
taken, for she is a man’s wife.” 2 Have mercy on me, O LORD,
4 But Abimelech had not come near her; and for I am weak;
he said, “Lord, will You slay a righteous nation O LORD, heal me, for my bones are
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also? Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? troubled.
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