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   Bible Reading for January 4   
      
   Genesis Chapter 12   
      
   1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and   
   from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will   
   shew thee:   
      
   2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and   
   make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:   
      
   3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth   
   thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.   
      
   4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with   
   him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.   
      
   5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all   
   their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had   
   gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and   
   into the land of Canaan they came.   
      
   6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the   
   plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.   
      
   7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give   
   this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared   
   unto him.   
      
   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.   
      
   9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.   
      
   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.   
      
   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   
   woman to look upon:   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the   
   Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.   
      
   15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before   
   Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.   
      
   16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen,   
   and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.   
      
   17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because   
   of Sarai Abram's wife.   
      
   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?   
      
   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.   
      
   20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away,   
   and his wife, and all that he had.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 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.   
      
   2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.   
      
   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;   
      
   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.   
      
   5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.   
      
   6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell   
   together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell   
   together.   
      
   7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the   
   herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled   
   then in the land.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east:   
   and they separated themselves the one from the other.   
      
   12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of   
   the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.   
      
   13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.   
      
   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:   
      
   15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy   
   seed for ever.   
      
   16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man   
   can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.   
      
   17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth   
   of it; for I will give it unto thee.   
      
   18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of   
   Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 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;   
      
   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.   
      
   3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the   
   salt sea.   
      
   4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they   
   rebelled.   
      
   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,   
      
   6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the   
   wilderness.   
      
   7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote   
   all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in   
   Hazezontamar.   
      
   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;   
      
   9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations,   
   and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with   
   five.   
      
   10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom   
   and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the   
   mountain.   
      
   11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their   
   victuals, and went their way.   
      
      
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