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He said, "I hope Adonai won't be angry if I speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the ten I won't destroy it."

ADONAI went on his way as soon as he had finished speaking to Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.

because we are going to destroy it. ADONAI has become aware of the great outcry against them, and ADONAI has sent us to destroy it."

Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up and leave this place, because ADONAI is going to destroy the city." But his sons-in-law didn't take him seriously.

But he dallied, so the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand and the hands of his two daughters -ADONAI was being merciful to him - and led them, leaving them outside the city.

Lot said to them, "Please, no, my lord!

Here, your servant has already found favor in your sight, and you have shown me even greater mercy by saving my life. But I can't escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

He replied, "All right, I agree to what you have asked. I won't overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Hurry, and escape to that place, because I can't do anything until you arrive there." For this reason the city was named Tzo'ar [small].

Then ADONAI caused sulfur and fire to rain down upon S'dom and 'Amora from ADONAI out of the sky.

He overthrew those cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities and everything growing in the ground.

Avraham got up early in the morning, went to the place where he had stood before ADONAI,

But when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Avraham and sent Lot out, away from the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

But God came to Avimelekh in a dream one night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, since she is someone's wife."

Now Avimelekh had not come near her; so he said, "Lord, will you kill even an upright nation?

God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in doing this, your heart has been pure; and I too have kept you from sinning against me. This is why I didn't let you touch her.

Avraham replied, "It was because I thought, 'There could not possibly be any fear of God in this place, so they will kill me in order to get my wife.'

When God had me leave my father's house, I told her, 'Do me this favor: wherever we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

Avraham prayed to God, and God healed Avimelekh and his wife and slave-girls, so that they could have children.

For ADONAI had made every woman in Avimelekh's household infertile on account of Sarah Avraham's wife.

ADONAI remembered Sarah as he had said, and ADONAI did for Sarah what he had promised.

Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the very time God had said to him.

Avraham circumcised his son Yitz'chak when he was eight days old, as God had ordered him to do.

Sarah said, "God has given me good reason to laugh; now everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."

But God said to Avraham, "Don't be distressed because of the boy and your slave-girl. Listen to everything Sarah says to you, because it is your descendants through Yitz'chak who will be counted.