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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
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They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
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And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
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And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
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And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
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And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
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And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
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And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
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And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
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And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
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And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
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And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
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And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
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And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
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And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
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Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.