Genesis 19
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Now a the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and b Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
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And he said, "Here now, my lords, please c turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and d wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, e "No, but we will spend the night in the open square."
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But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. f Then he made them a feast, and baked g unleavened bread, and they ate.
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Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.
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h And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? i Bring them out to us that we j may know them carnally."
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So k Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him,
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and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!
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l "See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, m since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof."
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And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one n came in to stay here, o and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.
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But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
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And they p struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.
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Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city - q take them out of this place!
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"For we will destroy this place, because the r outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and s the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, t who had married his daughters, and said, u "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" v But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
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When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, w "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city."
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And while he lingered, the men x took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the y LORD being merciful to him, z and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
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So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, a "Escape for your life! b Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape c to the mountains, lest you be destroyed."
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Then Lot said to them, "Please, d no, my lords!
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"Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
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"See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."
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And he said to him, "See, e I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.
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"Hurry, escape there. For f I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore g the name of the city was called Zoar.
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The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
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Then the LORD rained h brimstone and i fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
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So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and j what grew on the ground.
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But his wife looked back behind him, and she became k a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where l he had stood before the LORD.
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Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, m the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
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And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God n remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
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Then Lot went up out of Zoar and o dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
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Now the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth p to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.
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"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we q may preserve the lineage of our father."
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So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, "Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father."
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Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
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The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; r he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name BenAmmi; s he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.
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Genesis 18:2
So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
Genesis 18:22
Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
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Genesis 18:1 - 5
Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
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Genesis 24:31
And he said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
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Genesis 18:4
Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 24:32
Then the man came to the house. And he unloaded the camels, and provided straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
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Luke 24:28
Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.
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Genesis 18:6 - 8
So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).
Numbers 9:11
On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Numbers 28:17
And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
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Exodus 12:8
Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Isaiah 3:9
The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
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Judges 19:22
As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!
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Genesis 4:1
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the LORD.
Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:27
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
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Judges 19:23
But the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brethren! I beg you, do not act so wickedly! Seeing this man has come into my house, do not commit this outrage.
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Judges 19:24
"Look, here is my virgin daughter and the man's concubine; let me bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them as you please; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!"
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Genesis 18:5
"And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant." They said, "Do as you have said."
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2 Peter 2:7
And delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 2:8
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Exodus 2:14
Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!
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Genesis 20:17
So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children.
Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
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Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
2 Peter 2:7
And delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
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Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave.
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Leviticus 26:30 - 33
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:45
Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the LORD looked and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, "It is enough; now restrain your hand." And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.
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Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Numbers 16:24
"Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'"
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
Numbers 16:45
Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
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Exodus 9:21
But he who did not regard the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field.
Jeremiah 43:1
Now it happened, when Jeremiah had stopped speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, all these words.
Jeremiah 43:2
That Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.
Luke 17:28
Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
Luke 24:11
And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them.
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Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
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Deuteronomy 5:15
And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 6:21
Then you shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
2 Peter 2:7
And delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
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Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
Psalms 32:10
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
Psalms 33:18
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.
Psalms 33:19
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Luke 18:13
"And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'
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Psalms 34:22
The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.
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1 Kings 19:3
And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness.
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Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Matthew 24:16 - 18
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Luke 9:62
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.
Philippians 3:14
I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.
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Acts 10:14
But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.
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Job 42:8
"Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."
Job 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD commanded them; for the LORD had accepted Job.
Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.
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Exodus 32:10
"Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."
Deuteronomy 9:14
'Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
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Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.
Genesis 14:2
That they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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Deuteronomy 29:23
'The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning...
Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and br...
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty ...
Jeremiah 20:16
And let that man be like the cities Which the L...
Jeremiah 23:14
Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophe...
Jeremiah 49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And t...
Jeremiah 50:40
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their n...
Ezekiel 16:49
Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodo...
Ezekiel 16:50
And they were haughty and committed abomination...
Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand ...
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," Says the LORD of hosts, ...
Matthew 10:15
Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolera...
Mark 6:11
"And whoever will not receive you nor hear you,...
Luke 17:29
But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it ra...
Romans 9:29
And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the LORD of ...
2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in...
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies will lie in the street of...
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Leviticus 10:2
So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
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Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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Genesis 19:17
So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
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Genesis 18:22
Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
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Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning.
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Genesis 8:1
Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Genesis 18:23
And Abraham came near and said, "Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:27
Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin.
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Genesis 19:17
So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.
Genesis 19:19
Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
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Genesis 16:2
So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:4
So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became despised in her eyes.
Genesis 38:8
And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.
Genesis 38:9
But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother.
Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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Mark 12:19
Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Numbers 25:1
Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:9
"Then the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'"
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Numbers 21:24
Then Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.
Deuteronomy 2:19
'And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'"
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.