Daily
Feast
(Sixth
Day)
Genesis 18:6 – 21:2
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
18
6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and
said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a
tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
8 He took butter, milk, and the calf
which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree,
and they ate.
9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He
said, “There, in the tent.”
10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at
about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Sarah
heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced
in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After
I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh,
saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set
time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a
son.”
15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t
laugh,” for she was afraid.
He
said, “No, but you did laugh.”
16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward
Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. 17 Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I
do, 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the
nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 19
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 Yahweh, to do
righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that
which he has spoken of him.” 20 Yahweh
said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is
very grievous, 21 I will go down now,
and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If
not, I will know.”
22 The men turned from there, and went toward
Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh. 23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the
wicked? 24 What if there are fifty
righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the
fifty righteous who are in it? 25 May it
be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked,
so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you.
Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have
taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. 28 What
if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city
for lack of five?”
He
said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if
there are forty found there?”
He
said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and
I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
He
said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself
to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”
He
said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and
I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”
He
said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
33 Yahweh went his way as soon as he had
finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
19
1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot
sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed
himself with his face to the earth, 2
and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house,
stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”
They
said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with
him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened
bread, and they ate. 4 But before they
lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both
young and old, all the people from every quarter. 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where
are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may
have sex with them.”
6 Lot went out to them through the door, and
shut the door after himself. 7 He said,
“Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to
you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to
these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said,
“This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a
judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on
the man Lot, and came near to break the door. 10 But the men reached out their hand, and
brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 11 They struck the men who were at the door of
the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves
to find the door.
12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else
here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the
city, bring them out of the place: 13
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has
grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law,
who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this
place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!”
But
he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up!
Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the
iniquity of the city.” 16 But he
lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’
hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside
of the city. 17 It came to pass, when
they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind
you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be
consumed!”
18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
19 See now, your servant has found favor
in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have
shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil
overtake me, and I die. 20 See now, this
city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t
it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your
request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which
you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there,
for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city
was called Zoar.
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came
to Zoar. 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom
and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him,
and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the
place where he had stood before Yahweh. 28
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the
plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain,
God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when
he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He
lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31
The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not
a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 32 Come, let’s
make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our
father’s family line.” 33 They made
their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her
father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the
firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s
make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may
preserve our father’s family line.” 35
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and
lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 36 Thus
both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab.
He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his
name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
20
1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land
of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in
Gerar. 2 Abraham said about Sarah his
wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the
night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom
you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said,
“Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? 5
Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He
is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence
of my hands.”
6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know
that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you
from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her. 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he
is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore
her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were
very scared. 9 Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against
you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done
deeds to me that ought not to be done!” 10
Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this
thing?”
11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the
fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the
daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife. 13 When God caused me to wander
from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall
show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male
servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his
wife, to him. 15 Abimelech said, “Behold,
my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.” 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your
brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the
eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
17 Abraham prayed to God. So God healed
Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs
of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21
1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and
Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time
of which God had spoken to him.
Fifth Day <--> Seventh Day
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