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)
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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 18
Tanakh 33 verses
- 1 And appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- 2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed down to the earth,
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and said: ‘My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy .
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Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.
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And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your ; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your .’ And they said: ‘So do, as thou hast said.’
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And hastened into the tent unto , and said: ‘Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.’
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And ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the ; and he hastened to dress it.
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- 8 And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
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And they said unto him: ‘Where is thy wife?’ And he said: ‘Behold, in the tent.’
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- 10 And He said: ‘I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, thy wife shall have a son.’ And heard in the tent door, which was behind him.—
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Now and were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with after the manner of women.—
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And laughed within herself, saying: ‘After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?’
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And said unto : ‘Wherefore did laugh, saying: Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?
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Is any thing too hard for . At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and shall have a son.’
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Jeremiah 32:17 Matthew 19:26 Luke 1:37 Jeremiah 32:27 Mark 10:27 Ephesians 3:20 Job 42:2 Zechariah 8:6 Romans 4:21 Genesis 18:10 Numbers 11:23 Luke 1:13 Micah 7:18 Genesis 17:21 Matthew 14:31 Philippians 3:21 Philippians 4:13 Psalm 95:3 Hebrews 11:19 Deuteronomy 7:21 Luke 8:50 Psalm 93:1 1 Samuel 14:6 Deuteronomy 30:3 2 Kings 4:16 2 Kings 7:1-2 Matthew 3:9 Job 36:5 Luke 1:18 Psalm 90:13 - 15 Then denied, saying: ‘I laughed not’; for she was afraid. And He said: ‘Nay; but thou didst laugh.’
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And the men rose up from thence, and looked out toward Sodom; and went with them to bring them on the way.
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And said: ‘Shall I hide from that which I am doing;
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seeing that shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of , to do and justice; to the end that may bring upon that which He hath spoken of him.’
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Deuteronomy 4:9-10 Deuteronomy 11:19-21 Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Proverbs 22:6 Joshua 24:15 Ephesians 6:4 Psalm 34:15 Job 1:5 1 Timothy 3:12 2 Samuel 7:20 1 Timothy 3:4-5 Deuteronomy 32:46 Proverbs 6:20-22 2 Timothy 1:5 Psalm 78:2-9 2 Timothy 3:15 1 Chronicles 28:9 John 21:17 Amos 3:2 Psalm 11:4 1 Samuel 2:30-31 Psalm 1:6 2 Timothy 2:19 Acts 27:31 Acts 27:23-24 John 10:14 Isaiah 38:19 Genesis 17:23-27 -
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And said: ‘Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.
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- 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto Me; and if not, I will .’
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And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but stood yet before .
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- 23 And drew near, and said: ‘Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
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- 25 That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the judge of all the earth do justly?’
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And said: ‘If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.’
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- 27 And answered and said: ‘Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto , who am but dust and ashes.
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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five?’ And He said: ‘I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.’
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And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: ‘Peradventure there shall be forty found there.’ And He said: ‘I will not do it for the forty’s sake.’
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And he said: ‘Oh, let not be angry, and I will speak. Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.’ And He said: ‘I will not do it, if I find thirty there.’
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And he said: ‘Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto . Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.’ And He said: ‘I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.’
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- 32 And he said: ‘Oh, let not be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there.’ And He said: ‘I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.’
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And went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to ; and returned unto his place.
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