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Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
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may be interpreted Heard of God, because God had heard his
mother's prayer.

5. The forementioned son was born to Abram when he was eighty-six
years old: but when he was ninety-nine, God appeared to him, and
promised him that he Should have a son by Sarai, and commanded
that his name should be Isaac; and showed him, that from this son
should spring great nations and kings, and that they should
obtain all the land of Canaan by war, from Sidon to Egypt. But he
charged him, in order to keep his posterity unmixed with others,
that they should be circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin,
and that this should be done on the eighth day after they were
born: the reason of which circumcision I will explain in another
place. And Abram inquiring also concerning Ismael, whether he
should live or not, God signified to him that he should live to
be very old, and should be the father of great nations. Abram
therefore gave thanks to God for these blessings; and then he,
and all his family, and his son Ismael, were circumcised
immediately; the son being that day thirteen years of age, and he
ninety-nine.
CHAPTER 11.

How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath
Against Them For Their Sins.

1. About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their
riches and great wealth; they became unjust towards men, and
impious towards God, insomuch that they did not call to mind the
advantages they received from him: they hated strangers, and
abused themselves with Sodomitical practices. God was therefore
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