Genesis 16 Cross References - VIN

¹ Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. ² She said to Abram: "the LORD has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. ³ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife. ⁴ Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. ⁵ Then Sarai said to Abram: "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me." ⁶ "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her. ⁷ The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. ⁸ He said: "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I am running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered. ⁹ Then the angel of the LORD told her: "Go back to your mistress and submit to her. ¹⁰ "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count." ¹¹ the LORD's angel also said: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). the LORD has heard of your misery. ¹² "He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers." ¹³ She called the name of the LORD, who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me, for she said, 'I have not seen the one who sees me.'" ¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Look, it is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵ Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. ¹⁶ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

³⁰ Now Sarai was barren. She had no children.

¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

² Abram said, Sovereign LORD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus? ³ And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

⁹ Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was laughing in mockery. ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

¹² God said to Abraham: "Do not be upset about the boy and your slave. Listen to what Sarah says, because through Isaac your descendants will carry on your name.

²¹ And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

²¹ Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife because she was childless. the LORD answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.

² There was a man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren and childless.

⁷ But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.

³⁶ Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

²⁴ These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

¹ Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman: "Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?" ² The woman said to the serpent: "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. ³ '"However, God did say: 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it, or you will die.'" ⁴ "You will not die," the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ "God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened. Then you will be like God, knowing good and evil." ⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

¹² Adam said: "The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."

¹⁷ He said to Adam: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

¹⁶ "I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

¹⁰ And he said, "I will certainly return to you ⌊in the spring⌋, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the doorway of the tent, and which was behind him.

¹⁸ For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit? ³ She said: "Here is my maid Bilhah. Sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. This way I can become a mother through her." ⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Leah's slave woman Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

²² Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb.

⁴ "If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone.

¹¹ And all of the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman coming into your house as Rachel and as Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you have strength in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem.

³ Children are an inheritance from the LORD. They are a blessing from him.

⁴ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.

⁵ Then Sarai said to Abram: "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."

⁶ While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac.

⁹ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

²² That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

²² While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

¹ In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. ² She was unfaithful to him and went to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah. She was there four whole months. ³ Her husband went after her to persuade her to return. He had his servant with him and a couple of donkeys, and she brought him into her father's house. When her father saw him, he was pleased to meet him. ⁴ His father-in-law, the girl's father, persuaded him to stay, and he stayed with him three days, eating and drinking and sleeping there.

¹³ David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

³ He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

²⁵ Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

⁶ Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb. ⁷ This went on year after year when she went up to the house of the LORD; she provoked her, therefore she wept and didn't eat. ⁸ Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why are you crying and why don't you eat? Why are you upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

¹⁶ And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

²⁰ “So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' ²¹ For three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:

²³ For an unloved woman when she is married; and a maidservant that is heir to her mistress.

⁶ Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

²¹ and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you and judge because ye have made our savour to be a stench before Pharaoh and his slaves, putting a sword in their hands to slay us.

¹² May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge the wrong you have done me; but my hand shall not be against you. ¹³ "An old proverb says: 'Only evil people do evil things.' So I will not harm you. ¹⁴ Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? ¹⁵ May the LORD therefore be judge, and judge between you and me, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

²² So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!"

⁸ the LORD shall judge the people; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity on me.

²³ Wake up, and rise to my defense. Plead my case, O my God the LORD.

¹ Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!” ⁴¹ “Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things.

⁸ Abram said to Lot: "Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. ⁹ "Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

¹⁰ And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh, settled in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

⁶ the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.

⁴¹ He handed them over to other nations, and those who hated them ruled them. ⁴² Their enemies oppressed them and made them subject to their power.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

¹ A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred. ¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up fighting, but one slow to anger calms fighting.

⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

¹⁹ A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

⁴ If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses.

⁵ King Zedekiah said, "Look, he's in your hands, and the king can do nothing to you."

⁷ Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with honor as the weaker partner, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

¹ And Abraham moved from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

¹⁷ God heard the lad crying. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her: "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear! God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

¹¹ And the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

¹⁵ The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time.

¹⁸ And they dwelled from Havilah to Shur, that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brothers.

¹¹ The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

²² Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea into the desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

⁷ Saul attacked the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

³ The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

⁹ But the LORD God called to the man: "Where are you?"

¹⁰ the LORD said: "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood (life) cries out to me from the ground.

¹ Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

⁴ Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

¹⁹ Now let your majesty listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. But if it is people, may they be cursed before the LORD, because they have driven me out today from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD by saying, 'Go serve other gods.'

¹⁷ Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking the LORD your God when He led you by the way? ¹⁸ Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

⁵ Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would show to Christ. ⁶ And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. ⁷ Serve willingly, as if you were serving the Lord and not merely people, ⁸ because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

¹ As many as are under the yoke of slavery should consider their own owners to be worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and doctrine not be slandered. ² Moreover, those who have believing masters should be respectful to them, because they are fellow believers. In fact, they must serve them even better, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dear to them. These are the things you must teach and exhort.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

⁵ Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would show to Christ. ⁶ And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

⁹ Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not to talk back to them,

¹⁸ Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable. ¹⁹ For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. ²⁰ How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. ²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, ²² "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth;" ²³ When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly. ²⁴ He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. ²⁵ For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

⁵ Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” ⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

²⁰ "Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

¹³ "I will make the slave’s son into a nation also, because he is your child."

¹⁶ And she went and sat down opposite him, about a bow shot away. For she said, let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat opposite and raised her voice and wept.

¹⁸ Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.

¹⁵ The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time. ¹⁶ And he said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child, ¹⁷ '"I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies' cities. ¹⁸ And by your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

¹² Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Ismael whom Agar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham; ¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam ¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their towns and in their camps, twelve princes according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these, are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years,—and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered unto his people. ¹⁸ And they dwelled from Havilah to Shur, that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brothers.

¹¹ The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.' ¹² And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see—all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land and return to the land of your nativity.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning. ²⁵ And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him. ²⁶ The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me." ²⁷ Then he asked: "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." ²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome. ²⁹ Jacob said: "Please tell me your name." The man answered: "Why do you ask for my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there. ³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, ¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

² There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. ³ Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” ⁴ When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from the center of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am." ⁵ "Do not come any closer," God said. "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground." ⁶ Then he said, "I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

¹ And the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up from Egypt, and I brought you to the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you. ² and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this? ³ Therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.

¹¹ The angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

¹⁶ the LORD said to him Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.

²¹ Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD went from his sight. ²² Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, and Gideon said, Alas, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face! ²³ the LORD said to him, Peace! Don't be afraid. You will not die. ²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it "The LORD is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

¹⁶ The angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat your food, and if you prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD. Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of the LORD. ¹⁷ And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name so that when your words come true we may honor you?" ¹⁸ The angel asked: "Why do you want to know my name? It is ‘Wonderful.’" (Isaiah 9:6) ¹⁹ So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ²⁰ And when the flame ascended above the altar, up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. When Manoe and his wife saw this, they fell flat with their face to the ground. ²¹ But the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. ²² whereupon he said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God.

⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the dwellers of Tyre;"

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

³ In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God. ⁴ He struggled with the angel and won. Jacob cried and pleaded with him. Jacob found him at Bethel, and he talked with him there. ⁵ even the LORD, the God of hosts; The LORD is his name of renown.

⁸ For thus says the LORD of hosts; After his glory has he sent me unto the nations which plundered you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye. ⁹ "Behold! I will shake my hand (power) over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them." Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.

¹ "Look, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, look, he comes." says the LORD of hosts.

¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time. The only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

³⁰ After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. ³¹ When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him: ³² ‘I am the God of your Fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look. ³³ Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴ I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’ ³⁵ This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one God sent to be their ruler and redeemer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.' ³⁸ He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, residing in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see; to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

¹⁹ God replied: "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

³² Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, because she said: »Certainly, the LORD has seen my misery. Now my husband will love me!« ³³ And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said. Because the LORD heard that, I, was I hated, he gave me, this one also. So she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. ³⁵ Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.

⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim, because God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

²³ And then during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God. ²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

⁷ The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

⁹ And now, look, the cry of distress of the Israelites has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

²⁰ So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: "I asked the LORD for him."

⁴¹ "Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

²⁴ For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

¹⁴ Therefore the LORD will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (God with us).

²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you shall give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.” ²² All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ²³ “Behold! The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

¹³ But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall give him the name John.

³¹ And now, you shall be with child and give birth to a son, and you shall give him the name Jesus.

⁶³ He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John."

²⁰ God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

⁴⁰ You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

¹² "An empty headed man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.

⁵ Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands? ⁶ Whose home I have constituted the steppe, And the salty wastes as his habitat? ⁷ He laughs at the turmoil of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts; ⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

⁷ The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert. It was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

⁹ Then the angel of the LORD told her: "Go back to your mistress and submit to her. ¹⁰ "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."

¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place "the LORD will provide," for which reason it is said today, "on the mountain of the LORD it shall be provided."

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.

¹⁸ Then Moses said, "Please show me your glory." ¹⁹ And he said, "I myself will cause all my goodness to pass over before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion." ²⁰ But he said: "You cannot see my face, because no one may see me and live." ²¹ The LORD said, "Look, there is a place near me where you can stand on the rock; ²² "When my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice in the cliff and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. ²³ Then I'll remove my hand so you may see my back, but my face must not be seen."

⁵ The LORD came down in a cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed the name of the LORD. ⁶ And the LORD passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "the LORD, the LORD, God, who is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness, ⁷ "He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation."

²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it "The LORD is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

¹ For the music director. Of David. A psalm. O LORD, you have searched me, and you know me. ² You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar. ³ Thou measurest my going about and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For not a word is on my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, You know it all. ⁵ You hem me in behind and before, You have laid Your hand on me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too high, I cannot attain unto it. ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? ⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there. ⁹ If I lift up the wings of the dawn, and I alight on the far side of the sea, ¹⁰ even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. ¹¹ If I say: Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light around me. ¹² even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

²¹ For the ways of man are before the LORD's eyes. He examines all his paths.

⁷ Then they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar.

³¹ Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.

⁶² Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

¹¹ After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

²⁶ They returned to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. They gave their report and showed them the fruit from the land.

¹¹ the LORD's angel also said: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). the LORD has heard of your misery.

¹⁸ Abraham said to God: "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"

²⁵ His son Ishmael was thirteen. ²⁶ Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.

⁹ Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was laughing in mockery. ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. ¹¹ And the matter displeased Abraham very much on account of his son. ¹² God said to Abraham: "Do not be upset about the boy and your slave. Listen to what Sarah says, because through Isaac your descendants will carry on your name. ¹³ "I will make the slave’s son into a nation also, because he is your child." ¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba. ¹⁵ When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes. ¹⁶ And she went and sat down opposite him, about a bow shot away. For she said, let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat opposite and raised her voice and wept. ¹⁷ God heard the lad crying. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her: "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear! God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. ¹⁸ Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation. ¹⁹ And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink. ²⁰ God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. ²¹ And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre.

¹² Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Ismael whom Agar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;

²⁷ "Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.

²⁸ The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. ²³ His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born because of the promise.