16:11 We put out to sea ⁵  from Troas ⁶  and sailed a straight course ⁷  to Samothrace, ⁸  the next day to Neapolis, ⁹  16:12 and from there to Philippi, ¹⁰  which is a leading city of that district ¹¹  of Macedonia, ¹²  a Roman colony. ¹³  We stayed in this city for some days. 16:13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down ¹⁴  and began to speak ¹⁵  to the women ¹⁶  who had assembled there. ¹⁷  16:14 A ¹⁸  woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth ¹⁹  from the city of Thyatira, ²⁰  a God-fearing woman, listened to us. ²¹  The Lord opened her heart to respond ²²  to what Paul was saying. 16:15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, ²³  “If ²⁴  you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, ²⁵  come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded ²⁶  us.

16:16 Now ²⁷  as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. ²⁸  She ²⁹  brought her owners ³⁰  a great profit by fortune-telling. ³¹  16:17 She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, ³²  “These men are servants ³³  of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way ³⁴  of salvation.” ³⁵ 

20:6 Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. ⁴  That is why I have kept you ⁵  from sinning against me and why ⁶  I did not allow you to touch her. 20:7 But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed ⁷  he is a prophet ⁸  and he will pray for you; thus you will live. ⁹  But if you don’t give her back, ¹⁰  know that you will surely die ¹¹  along with all who belong to you.”

20:8 Early in the morning ¹²  Abimelech summoned ¹³  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ¹⁴  they ¹⁵  were terrified. 20:9 Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? ¹⁶  You have done things to me that should not be done!” ¹⁷  20:10 Then Abimelech asked ¹⁸  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” ¹⁹ 

20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ²⁰  ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of ²¹  my wife.’ 20:12 What’s more, ²²  she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife. 20:13 When God made me wander ²³  from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: ²⁴  Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

20:14 So Abimelech gave ²⁵  sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him. 20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” ²⁶ 

20:16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver ²⁷  to your ‘brother.’ ²⁸  This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.” ²⁹ 

21:1 The Lord visited ¹  Sarah just as he had said he would and did ²  for Sarah what he had promised. ³  21:2 So Sarah became pregnant ⁴  and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. 21:3 Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. ⁵  21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, ⁶  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ⁷  21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ⁸ 

21:6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. ⁹  Everyone who hears about this ¹⁰  will laugh ¹¹  with me.” 21:7 She went on to say, ¹²  “Who would ¹³  have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

21:8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹⁴  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ¹⁵  21:9 But Sarah noticed ¹⁶  the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. ¹⁷  21:10 So she said to Abraham, “Banish ¹⁸  that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. ¹⁹  21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset ²⁰  about the boy or your slave wife. Do ²¹  all that Sarah is telling ²²  you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. ²³  21:13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ²⁴  some food ²⁵  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ²⁶  and sent her away. So she went wandering ²⁷  aimlessly through the wilderness ²⁸  of Beer Sheba. 21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved ²⁹  the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot ³⁰  away; for she thought, ³¹  “I refuse to watch the child die.” ³²  So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. ³³ 

21:17 But God heard the boy’s voice. ³⁴  The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, ³⁵  Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard ³⁶  the boy’s voice right where he is crying. 21:18 Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

27:1 When ¹  Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, ²  he called his older ³  son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau ⁴  replied.