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CHAPTER 16:
Angelic Visitation Of
Abraham In Hebron;
Promise Of Isaac’s
Birth Repeated. The
Destruction Of Sodom
And Lot’s Deliverance
(16:1-9; cf. Gen. 18-19)
1 And on the new moon of
the fourth month we appeared
unto Abraham, at the oak of
For 1 cf. Gn.
18:1, 10 (v. Mamre, and we talked with
2-9 omitted). him, and we announced to
him that a son would be given
to him by Sarah his wife.
2 And Sarah laughed, for she
heard that we had spoken
these words with Abraham,
Cf. Gn. and we admonished her, and
18:10, 12, 15 she became afraid, and denied
that she had laughed on
account of the words. 3 And
we told her the name of her
son, as his name is ordained
and written in the heavenly
tables (i.e.) Isaac. 4 And (that)
when we returned to her at
a set time, she would have
conceived a son. 5 And in
this month Yahuah executed
Cf.
Gn. 14:2, 8 his judgments on Sodom,
and Gomorrah, and Zeboim,
and all the region of the
Jordan, and He burned them
with fire and brimstone, and
destroyed them until this day,
even as [lo] I have declared
i. e. the
angels.
O F
S O D O M
unto thee all their works, that
they are wicked and sinners For 5 cf.
exceedingly, and that they Gn. 19:24
defile themselves and commit
fornication in their flesh, and
work uncleanness on the earth.
6 And, in like manner, God
will execute judgment on the
places where they have done
according to the uncleanness
of the Sodomites, like unto
the judgment of Sodom.
7 But Lot we saved; for Elohim
remembered Abraham, and
sent him out from the midst
For 7-8 cf.
of the overthrow.
Gn. 19:29,
31 ff
8 And he and his daughters
committed sin upon the earth,
such as had not been on the
earth since the days of Adam
till his time; for the man lay
with his daughters. 9 And,
behold, it was commanded
and engraven concerning
all his seed, on the heavenly
tables, to remove them and
root them out, and to execute
judgment upon them like
the judgment of Sodom,
and to leave no seed of the
man on earth on the day of
condemnation.
Abraham at Beersheba.
Birth and Circumcision
of Isaac (cf. Gen. 21:1-4).
Institution of the Feast of
Tabernacles (16:10-31)
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in
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