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Welcome to Day 6 of Reading the Bible in a Year.

Today were reading Genesis 21 , Genesis 22 and Genesis 23.

Genesis Chapter 21

Genesis 21:1  The LORD was good to Sarah and kept his promise.
Genesis 21:2  Although Abraham was very old, Sarah had a son exactly at the time God had said.
Genesis 21:3  Abraham named his son Isaac,
Genesis 21:4  and when the boy was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, just as the LORD had commanded.
Genesis 21:5  Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born,
Genesis 21:6  and Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Now everyone will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7  Who would have dared to tell Abraham that someday I would have a child? But in his old age, I have given him a son.”
Genesis 21:8  The time came when Sarah no longer had to nurse Isaac, and on that day Abraham gave a big feast.
Genesis 21:9  One day, Sarah noticed Hagar’s son Ishmael playing, and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that Egyptian slave woman and her son! I don’t want him to inherit anything. It should all go to my son.”
Genesis 21:10  (SEE 21:9)
Genesis 21:11  Abraham was worried about Ishmael.
Genesis 21:12  But God said, “Abraham, don’t worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
Genesis 21:13  but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation.”
Genesis 21:14  Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread. Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away. They wandered around in the desert near Beersheba,
Genesis 21:15  and after they had run out of water, Hagar put her son under a bush.
Genesis 21:16  Then she sat down a long way off, because she could not bear to watch him die. And she cried bitterly.
Genesis 21:17  When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, “Hagar, why are you worried? Don’t be afraid. I have heard your son crying.
Genesis 21:18  Help him up and hold his hand, because I will make him the father of a great nation.”
Genesis 21:19  Then God let her see a well. So she went to the well and filled the skin with water, then gave some to her son.
Genesis 21:20  God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows. He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.
Genesis 21:21  (SEE 21:20)
Genesis 21:22  About this time Abimelech and his army commander Phicol said to Abraham, “God blesses everything you do!
Genesis 21:23  Now I want you to promise in the name of God that you will always be loyal to me and my descendants, just as I have always been loyal to you in this land where you have lived as a foreigner.”
Genesis 21:24  And so, Abraham promised.
Genesis 21:25  One day, Abraham told Abimelech, “Some of your servants have taken over one of my wells.”
Genesis 21:26  “This is the first I’ve heard about it,” Abimelech replied. “Why haven’t you said something before? I don’t have any idea who did it.”
Genesis 21:27  Abraham gave Abimelech some sheep and cattle, and then the two men made a peace treaty.
Genesis 21:28  Abraham separated seven female lambs from his flock of sheep,
Genesis 21:29  and Abimelech asked, “Why have you done this?”
Genesis 21:30  Abraham told him, “I want you to accept these seven lambs as proof that I dug this well.”
Genesis 21:31  So they called the place Beersheba, because they made a treaty there.
Genesis 21:32  When the treaty was completed, Abimelech and his army commander Phicol went back to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:33  Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the eternal LORD God.
Genesis 21:34  Then Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.

Genesis Chapter 22

Genesis 22:1  Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, “Here I am, LORD.”
Genesis 22:2  The LORD said, “Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar.”
Genesis 22:3  So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.
Genesis 22:4  Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.
Genesis 22:5  He told his servants, “Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back.”
Genesis 22:6  Abraham put the wood on Isaac’s shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along,
Genesis 22:7  Isaac said, “Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?” “My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the lamb.” The two of them walked on, and
Genesis 22:8  (SEE 22:7)
Genesis 22:9  when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.
Genesis 22:10  He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
Genesis 22:11  But the LORD’s angel shouted from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.
Genesis 22:12  “Don’t hurt the boy or harm him in any way!” the angel said. “Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.”
Genesis 22:13  Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.
Genesis 22:14  Abraham named that place “The LORD Will Provide.” And even now people say, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Genesis 22:15  The LORD’s angel called out from heaven a second time:
Genesis 22:16  You were willing to offer the LORD your only son, and so he makes you this solemn promise,
Genesis 22:17  “I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.
Genesis 22:18  You have obeyed me, and so you and your descendants will be a blessing to all nations on earth.”
Genesis 22:19  Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham’s home in Beersheba.
Genesis 22:20  Abraham’s brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. Uz was their first-born; Buz was next, and then there was Kemuel who became the father of Aram; their other five sons were: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel, who became the father of Rebekah.
Genesis 22:21  (SEE 22:20)
Genesis 22:22  (SEE 22:20)
Genesis 22:23  (SEE 22:20)
Genesis 22:24  Nahor also had another wife. Her name was Reumah, and she had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis Chapter 23

Genesis 23:1  When Sarah was one hundred twenty-seven years old, she died in Kiriath-Arba, better known as Hebron, in the land of Canaan. After Abraham had mourned for her,
Genesis 23:2  (SEE 23:1)
Genesis 23:3  he went to the Hittites and said,
Genesis 23:4  “I live as a foreigner in your land, and I don’t own any property where I can bury my wife. Please let me buy a piece of land.”
Genesis 23:5  “Sir,” they answered, “you are an important man. Choose the best place to bury your wife. None of us would refuse you a resting place for your dead.”
Genesis 23:6  (SEE 23:5)
Genesis 23:7  Abraham bowed down
Genesis 23:8  and replied, “If you are willing to let me bury my wife here, please ask Zohar’s son Ephron
Genesis 23:9  to sell me Machpelah Cave at the end of his field. I’ll pay what it’s worth, and all of you can be witnesses.”
Genesis 23:10  Ephron was sitting there near the city gate, when Abraham made this request, and he answered,
Genesis 23:11  “Sir, the whole field, including the cave, is yours. With my own people as witnesses, I freely give it to you as a burial place for your dead.”
Genesis 23:12  Once again, Abraham bowed down
Genesis 23:13  and said to Ephron, “In front of these witnesses, I offer you the full price, so I can bury my wife. Please accept my offer.”
Genesis 23:14  “But sir,” the man replied, “the property is worth only four hundred pieces of silver. Why should we haggle over such a small amount? Take the land. It’s yours.”
Genesis 23:15  (SEE 23:14)
Genesis 23:16  Abraham accepted Ephron’s offer and paid him the four hundred pieces of silver in front of everyone at the city gate. That’s how Abraham got Ephron’s property east of Hebron, which included the field with all of its trees, as well as Machpelah Cave at the end of the field.
Genesis 23:17  (SEE 23:16)
Genesis 23:18  (SEE 23:16)
Genesis 23:19  So Abraham buried his wife Sarah in Machpelah Cave that was in the field
Genesis 23:20  he had bought from the Hittites.

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