The Bible: In the Beginning... Page #5

At the time appointed

I will return unto thee...

...and Sarah shall have a son.

We are going...

...towards the cities of the plain.

I will bring you on your way.

Shall I hide from Abraham...

...that thing which I do?

Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah

is great...

...and because their sin

is very grievous...

...I will go down now...

...and see whether

they have done altogether...

...according to the cry of it,

which has come unto me...

...and if not, I will know.

Wilt thou also destroy

the righteous with the wicked?

There may be 50 righteous...

...within the city. Wilt thou not

spare the place for them?

Shall not the judge

of all the Earth...

...do right?

If I find 50 righteous

within the city...

...I will spare all the place

for their sakes.

What if there be 45 such men?

Or 30? Or even as few as 20?

I will not destroy it...

...for 20's sake.

Let not the Lord be angry

and I will speak yet but this once:

Peradventure, 10 shall be found there.

I will not destroy it...

...for 10's sake.

It chanced that when the sun was down,

Lot sat in the gates of the city.

And he lift up his eyes and looked...

...and beheld two strangers

coming into the city.

- What strangers are these?

- Where are they from?

- Two angels of God.

- So fair they are. So fair.

- Where are they?

- What have you done with them?

- Yes, bring them out unto us!

- Bring them, that we may know them!

I pray, brethren, do not so wickedly.

For these strangers

here with us are of God.

Better you destroy all I possess...

...than any harm should be done them.

Behold, I have two daughters

which have not known man.

Let me, I pray you,

bring them out unto you...

...and do ye to them

as is good in your eyes...

...only unto these men do nothing.

This one fellow came in to sojourn...

...and he will needs be a judge?

Now will we deal worse

with thee than with them!

I cannot see!

Whatsoever thou hast in the city,

bring them out of this place...

...for the Lord hath sent us

to destroy it.

Take thy wife and thy two daughters

which are here...

...lest thou be consumed

in the iniquity of the city.

Escape to the mountain,

lest thou be consumed.

Look not behind thee.

The name of our son

shall be called Isaac.

Thy son...

...and mine.

God hath made me laugh.

All that hear will laugh with me.

Who would have said unto Abraham...

...that Sarah would have

given children suck?

For I have borne him a son

in his old age.

In him...

...are the stars of the heavens...

...and the sands of the seashore.

And the child grew...

...and Abraham made a great feast

the same day Isaac was weaned.

Cast out this bondwoman and her son.

Who has put this into thy heart?

Did you not see how

he went among us mocking?

I have a great fear there will

come such division in our people.

Like Cain and Abel again. I beg you,

cast out this bondwoman and her son!

The son of this bondwoman

shall not be heir with my son...

...even with Isaac.

What sayest thou? He is my seed.

I will not cast out the lad,

nor thy bondwoman.

But 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. "

And Abraham sent her away,

and she departed...

...and wandered in the wilderness

of Beersheba.

Lord! Let me not see

the death of the child!

And an angel of God

called to Hagar out of heaven...

...and he said unto her:

What aileth thee, Hagar?

Fear not...

...for God hath heard the voice

of the lad where he is.

And God was with the lad...

...and he grew

and became a great nation.

Here are the generations

of my fathers named...

...to whom God gave life.

It has fallen to me that

the past shall not be forgotten...

...and after me...

...my son...

...also shall remember it.

By what descent are ye come?

These are the generations

of which I am made...

...of Noah, who by faith

prepared an ark...

...to the saving of this house.

Noah begat Shem...

...and Shem, Arphaxad...

...and after him was Salah,

who begat Eber...

...and his son was Peleg...

...the father of Reu,

who begat Serug...

...the father of Nahor...

...and Nahor begat Terah...

...whose son was Abraham,

my father.

Here are the names written.

And here shalt thy name be also...

...Isaac, son of Abraham...

...when thou takest my place.

Put thy hand upon it.

Abraham...

Abraham!

Here I am.

The night is filled with thy voice.

Here am I.

What dost thou demand of me?

Thy son.

Thy only son.

What sayest thou?

Take now thy son...

...thy only son, Isaac,

whom thou lovest...

...and go into the mountains,

where I shall show thee...

...and offer him there

for a burnt offering.

Wouldst thou I do

even as the Canaanites...

...who lay their first-born

on fires before idols?

Art thou truly the Lord, my God?

Thou knowest.

No!

Thou wilt not...

...ask this thing of me!

Isaac...

...take leave of thy mother.

Mother, I am going on a journey.

A journey?

We are going on a journey

of three days.

- I am going with my father.

- What dost thou tell me?

A journey unto the land of Moriah!

Unto Moriah?

Why unto Moriah?

God hath commanded that

we go there to sacrifice unto him.

Six days must I wait for thee?

Mother, it is a little time.

I have waited for thee

until I was old.

The days are precious to me.

Isaac, Isaac....

What should I fear...

...if thou goest with thy father?

Father...

...this was a city?

The city of Sodom.

Lot sat here in this gate.

And here...

...came the two angels to him.

He overthrew these cities

and all the plain...

...and all the inhabitants

of the cities...

...and that which grew

upon the face of the ground.

All the inhabitants?

And lo, the smoke

of the country went up...

...as the smoke of a furnace.

The Lord, our God, must be obeyed.

All the inhabitants of the cities?

The children also?

Were the children also wicked?

Father?

Shall not the judge

of all the Earth...

...do right?

Call the nobles to the kingdom!

None are here.

All the princes are nothing!

Father!

All the princes are nothing!

The thorns have come up

in the palace.

From generation

to generation it will lie...

...waste.

Ye shall stretch out upon it

the line of confusion.

Has it not been told from the

beginning, God is He that sitteth...

...upon the circle of the Earth...

...that stretcheth out the heaven

as a curtain...

...and spreadeth them out as a tent

wherein to dwell...

...that bringeth the princes

to nothing?

Ye shall blow upon them...

...and they shall wither!

And the whirlwind...

...shall take them away...

...as stubble.

My son...

...the Lord God...

...appeared unto me...

...and said unto me,

"I am the Almighty God.

Walk before me...

...and be thou...

...perfect.

Behold, my covenant is with thee...

...and I will make thee...

...exceedingly...

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