Living Room Study

Genesis 24

“The servant said to him, ‘Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land?  Should I have your son go back to the land he came from?’  Abraham answered him, ‘Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.  The Lord, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father’s [...]

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Genesis 23

“Abraham bowed down to the people of the land and said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, ‘Please listen to me.  Let me pay the price of the field.  Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.’  Ephron answered Abraham and said to him, ‘My lord, [...]

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Genesis 21

“The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.  Abraham named his son who was born to him – the one Sarah bore [...]

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Genesis 20

“Abraham replied, ‘I thought: “There is absolutely no fear of God in this place.  They will kill me because of my wife.”  Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father, though not the daughter of my mother.  So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: [...]

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Genesis 19

“Early in the morning, Abraham went tot the place where he had stood before the Lord.  He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.  So it was when God destroyed the cities [...]

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Genesis 18
“You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and wicked alike.  You could not possibly do that!  Won’t the judge of all the earth do what is just?’”  Genesis 18:25
In Abraham’s day, the story of Noah must have still been fresh on the world’s [...]

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Genesis 17

“So Abraham said to God, ‘If only Ishmael could live in your presence.’  But God said, ‘No.  Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.  I will confirm my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant with his offspring after him.  As for Ishmael, I have heard you.  [...]

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Genesis 16

“Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.  Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.  The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.  He said, Hagar, [...]

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Genesis 14

“Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.  Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning greatly against the Lord.”  Gen 13: 12-13

“The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and [...]

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Genesis 13

“After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, ‘Look from the place where you are.  Look north and south, east and west, for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if [...]

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