Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.
Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.
And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.
And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.
Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?
And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.
Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.
So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.
And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.
And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.
And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.
And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
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