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The angel of the LORD found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.

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Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.

Feb 2

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highlighted Genesis 16:4 NLT

So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.

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highlighted Genesis 16:5 NLT

Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The LORD will show who’s wrong—you or me!”

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highlighted Genesis 16:3 NLT

So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)

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highlighted Genesis 16:2 NLT

So Sarai said to Abram, “The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.

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highlighted Genesis 15:19 NLT

the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

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highlighted Genesis 15:18 NLT

So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—

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highlighted Genesis 15:15 NLT

(As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)

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highlighted Genesis 15:14 NLT

But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.

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highlighted Genesis 15:13 NLT

Then the LORD said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

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highlighted Genesis 15:11 NLT

Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.

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Then the LORD took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!” And Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith. Then the LORD told him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.” But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?” The LORD told him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

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highlighted Genesis 15:4 NLT

Then the LORD said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”

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highlighted Genesis 15:2 NLT

But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, what good are all your blessings when I don’t even have a son? Since you’ve given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.

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highlighted Genesis 14:24 NLT

I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten, and I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.”

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highlighted Genesis 14:20 NLT

And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.

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highlighted Genesis 14:13 NLT

But one of Lot’s men escaped and reported everything to Abram the Hebrew, who was living near the oak grove belonging to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his relatives, Eshcol and Aner, were Abram’s allies.

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highlighted Genesis 13:15 NLT

I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.

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highlighted Genesis 13:18 NLT

So Abram moved his camp to Hebron and settled near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. There he built another altar to the LORD.

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