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So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac."

So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him.

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

So Abraham called that place "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham lived at Beer-sheba.

"I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

so that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place."

He said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "If you only will listen to me! I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there."

So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, passed

So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

So the man came into the house; and Laban unloaded the camels, and gave him straw and fodder for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?' She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms.