These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 16
Tanakh 16 verses
- 1 Now Abram’s wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose was .
- 2 And said unto : ‘Behold now, hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.’ And hearkened to the voice of .
- 3 And Abram’s wife took the Egyptian, her handmaid, after had dwelt ten years in the land of , and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
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And he went in unto , and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
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And said unto : ‘My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: judge between me and thee.’
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- 6 But said unto : ‘Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes.’ And dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her .
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And the of found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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- 8 And he said: ‘, Sarai’s handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?’ And she said: ‘I flee from the of my mistress .’
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And the of said unto her: ‘Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.’
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And the of said unto her: ‘I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
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Genesis 17:20 Genesis 21:13 Genesis 22:15-18 Genesis 25:12-18 Genesis 21:16 Genesis 21:18 Judges 6:11 John 1:18 Psalm 83:6-7 Malachi 3:1 Judges 6:21-24 Judges 2:1-3 Zechariah 2:8-9 Acts 7:30-38 Genesis 48:15-16 Hosea 12:3-5 Genesis 32:24-30 Judges 6:16 Genesis 31:11-13 1 Timothy 6:16 Exodus 3:2-6 Judges 13:16-22 Isaiah 63:9 - 11 And the of said unto her: ‘Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his , because hath heard thy affliction.
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And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the of all his brethren.’
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- 13 And she called the of that spoke unto her, Thou art a of seeing; for she said: ‘Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?’
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Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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- 15 And bore a son; and called the of his son, whom bore, .
- 16 And was fourscore and six years old, when bore to .