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So they had their father drink wine that night too, and the younger got up and slept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

And so both of the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

And Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah.

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their presence; and the people were greatly frightened.

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, so that they gave birth to children.

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my descendants, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have resided."

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

He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well."

So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place of which God had told him.

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

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

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived in Beersheba.

"I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham so that the sons of Heth heard, that is, all who entered the gate of his city, saying,

But he spoke to Ephron so that the people of the land heard, saying, "If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me so that I may bury my dead there."

"My lord, listen to me: a plot of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."