The angel of the LORD called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Abraham called the name of that place the LORD Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On the LORD's mountain, it will be provided."
The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you."
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.
Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
He said, "the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
He said, "I am Abraham's servant.
I came this day to the spring, and said, 'the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go--
I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the LORD.
They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.
Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
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