Genesis 17:6

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 17:5

Neither [No longer] shall thy name any more be called Abram [exalted father], but thy name shall be Abraham [father of a multitude]; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:4

As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:3

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Genesis 17:1

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God [El Shaddai]; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 16:6

And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Note:  This meant Abraham was 86 years old (1 score =20).  Also, Ishmael was born 1935 years after Adam. Shem, the son of Noah, was still alive when Ishmael was born (Shem was 476 years old and would live to be 600).

Genesis 16:15

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

Genesis 16:14

Wherefore the well was called Be-er-la-hai-roi ["Well of the One who lives and sees me"]; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16:13

And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me ["El Roi", literally God Who Sees]: for she said, Have I also here looked after him [seen the back of Him] that seeth me?

Genesis 16:12

And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Genesis 16:11

And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt
call his name Ishmael ["God hears"]; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Genesis 16:10

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed [descendants] exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 16:9

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:8

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

Genesis 16:7

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain [spring] of water in the wilderness, by the fountain [spring] in the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:6

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee [as you please]. And when Sarai dealt hardly [harshly] with her, she fled from her face [presence].

Genesis 16:5

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

Genesis 16:4

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes [sight].

Genesis 16:3

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 16:2

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children [be built up from her] by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.


Note that this is in opposition to the Lord promising Abraham he would give him children through Sarah.

Genesis 16:1

Now Sarai Abram's wife bare [had borne] him no children: and she had an handmaid [maid servant], an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

Genesis 15:21

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.


note:  these are the peoples of Canaan that God will instruct Moses to destroy.

Genesis 15:20

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,


note:  the peoples the Lord God will instruct Moses to destroy out of Canaan.

Genesis 15:19

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

note:  the peoples the Lord God will instruct Moses to destroy out of Canaan.

Genesis 15:18

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed [descendants] have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 15:17

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold [there was] a smoking furnace [oven], and a burning lamp [torch] that passed between those pieces.

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not
yet full [complete].

Note:  The Amorites were the inhabitant's of Caanan, and were predominately the Syrian stock of people which included the remnants of the Giants...

Genesis 15:15

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 15:14

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance [possessions].

Genesis 15:13

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 15:12

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:11

And when the fowls [vultures] came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:10

And he took unto him all these, and divided [cut] them in the midst [middle], and laid each piece one against [opposite] another: but the birds divided he not.

Genesis 15:9

And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she [female] goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Genesis 15:8

And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

Genesis 15:7

And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:6

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell [count] the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 15:4

And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one [a son of my house, a servant] born in my house is mine heir.

Genesis 15:2

 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward [heir] of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 14:24

Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Genesis 14:23

That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet [sandal strap], and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

Genesis 14:22

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14:21

And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

Genesis 14:20

And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes [a tenth] of all.

Genesis 14:19

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.

Genesis 14:17

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter [defeat] of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's dale [valley].

Genesis 14:16

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 14:15

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is] on the left hand [north] of Damascus.

Genesis 14:14

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.

Genesis 14:13

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew(1); for he dwelt in [by] the plain of Mamre [Alon Mamre, terebinth trees of Mamre] the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate [allies] with Abram.

(1)According to KJV, This is the first time the word Hebrew is used, and it references Genesis 13:18, which tells of Abraham dwelling in Hebron.

genesis 14:12

And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14:11

And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals [provisions], and went their way.

Genesis 14:10

And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits [asphalt pits]; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Genesis 14:9

With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations [goyim, non-Jew], and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with [against] five.

Genesis 14:8

And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

Genesis 14:7

And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar.

Genesis 14:6

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness.

Genesis 14:5

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14:4

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14:3

All these were joined together in the vale [valley] of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

Genesis 14:2

[That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

Genesis 14:1

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations [Goyim, or non-Jew];

Genesis 13:18

Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre [Heb. Alon Mamre, terebinth trees of Mamre], which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

note:  The terebinth is a type of tree, and later would be used for idolatrous religious practices.

Genesis 13:17

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed [descendents] as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed [descendents] also be numbered.

Genesis 13:15

For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed [descendents] for ever.

Genesis 13:14

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners [sinful] before the LORD exceedingly.

Genesis 13:12

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward [as far as] Sodom.

Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose him [for himself] all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Genesis 13:9

[Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Genesis 13:8

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.

Genesis 13:7

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle [livestock] and the herdmen of Lot's cattle [livestock]: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 13:6

And the land was not able to bear [support] them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

Genesis 13:5

And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Genesis 13:4

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD

Genesis 13:3

And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai [or Ai];

Genesis 13:2

And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:1

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. [Negev desert]

Genesis 12:20

And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.

Genesis 12:19

Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take [her,] and go thy way.

Genesis 12:18

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she [was] thy wife?

Genesis 12:17

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Genesis 12:16

And he entreated [treated] Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses [male donkeys], and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Genesis 12:15

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 12:14

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.

Genesis 12:13

Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

Genesis 12:12

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his wife:
and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

Genesis 12:11

And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair [beautiful] woman to look upon:

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.


Note that the Bible does not say God told Abraham to journey into Egypt, it APPEARS to be Abraham's decision to go there, with the following actions taking place, that force him back into the land God promised him...

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Genesis 12:8

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Bethel is located approx 12 miles to the north of Jerusalem.

Genesis 12:7*

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed [descendants] will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Prophecy to come.

Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem [or Shechem], unto the plain of Moreh"[also called "Alon Morah, the terebinth tree of Moreh]. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.


A terebinth denotes a large tree (usually oak), and in later books of the Bible they are the groves of tree's where ritual sacrifice take place.