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I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.

For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.

And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,

Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:

Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.

And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

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

And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.

And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.