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To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham’s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

The children of Heth answered, saying:

Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:

Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.

And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.