Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
the LORD said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
the LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
Abraham said, "I will swear."
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
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