V-2 - Chapter 9 - Sarah's Story

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> http://www.biblegateway.com looks like a useful look-up tool for the  
> Bible, offering up an easy to navigate layout and multiple  
> translations. Here's some sections that should be relevant to  
> "Mondaugen's Story."


here's more of Sarah's Story;

Genesis 17 (King James Version)

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

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

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

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

  5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name  
shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

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

  7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed  
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a  
God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

  8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land  
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an  
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  9And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,  
thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

   10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and  
thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

  11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall  
be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

  12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,  
every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or  
bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

  13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy  
money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your  
flesh for an everlasting covenant.

  14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is  
not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath  
broken my covenant.

  15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not  
call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I  
will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people  
shall be of her.

  17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his  
heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old?  
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

  18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

  19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and  
thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with  
him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

  20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed  
him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;  
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

  21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall  
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

  22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

  23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his  
house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the  
men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in  
the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

  24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was  
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was  
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

  27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with  
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.



Genesis 18


  1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat  
in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by  
him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and  
bowed himself toward the ground,

  3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass  
not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

  4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet,  
and rest yourselves under the tree:

  5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts;  
after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your  
servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

  6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make  
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes  
upon the hearth.

  7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good,  
and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

  8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,  
and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they  
did eat.

  9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,  
Behold, in the tent.

  10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the  
time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah  
heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

  11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it  
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

  12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed  
old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

  13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,  
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

  14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will  
return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have  
a son.

  15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And  
he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

  16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and  
Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

  17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

  18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty  
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his  
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do  
justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which  
he hath spoken of him.

  20 And the LORD 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 they have done altogether  
according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will  
know.

  22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward  
Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

  23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the  
righteous with the wicked?

  24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou  
also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are  
therein?

  25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the  
righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the  
wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do  
right?

  26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the  
city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

  27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me  
to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

  28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt  
thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find  
there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

  29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there  
shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's  
sake.

  30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will  
speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I  
will not do it, if I find thirty there.

  31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the  
LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I  
will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

  32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet  
but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I  
will not destroy it for ten's sake.

  33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with  
Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.



Genesis 20


  1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and  
dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

  2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and  
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,  
Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken;  
for she is a man's wife.

  4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou  
slay also a righteous nation?

  5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself  
said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of  
my hands have I done this.

  6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this  
in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning  
against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

  7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and  
he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her  
not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

  8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his  
servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were  
sore afraid.

  9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou  
done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on  
me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that  
ought not to be done.

  10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast  
done this thing?

  11 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.

  12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my  
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my  
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou  
shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me,  
He is my brother.

  14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and  
womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his  
wife.

  15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where  
it pleaseth thee.

  16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a  
thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the  
eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was  
reproved.

  17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his  
wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

  18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of  
Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.



Genesis 21


  1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto  
Sarah as he had spoken.

  2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the  
set time of which God had spoken to him.

  3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,  
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

  4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God  
had commanded him.

  5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born  
unto him.

  6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear  
will laugh with me.

  7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should  
have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

  8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast  
the same day that Isaac was weaned.

  9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born  
unto Abraham, mocking.

  10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her  
son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even  
with Isaac.

  11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his  
son.

  12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight  
because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah  
hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy  
seed be called.

  13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,  
because he is thy seed.

  14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a  
bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,  
and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in  
the wilderness of Beersheba.

  15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child  
under one of the shrubs.

  16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off,  
as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the  
child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

  17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called  
to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar?  
fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

  18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will  
make him a great nation.

  19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she  
went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

  20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the  
wilderness, and became an archer.

  21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him  
a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the  
chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee  
in all that thou doest:

  23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal  
falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according  
to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and  
to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

  24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

  25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which  
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither  
didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

  27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;  
and both of them made a covenant.

  28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

  29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs  
which thou hast set by themselves?

  30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my  
hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they  
sware both of them.

  32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up,  
and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the  
land of the Philistines.

  33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the  
name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

  34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.