Study Desk

One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old. Everywhere on the earth women and men marry, but there are no men around here for us to marry.

Give Abraham his wife back. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will not die. But if you do not give Sarah back, you and all your family will surely die."

When God told me to leave my father's house and wander in many different places, I told Sarah, ‘You must do a special favor for me. Everywhere we go tell people I am your brother.'"

Abimelech said to Sarah, "I gave your brother Abraham twenty-five pounds of silver to make up for any wrong that people may think about you. I want everyone to know that you are innocent."

The Lord had kept all the women in Abimelech's house from having children as a punishment on Abimelech for taking Abraham's wife Sarah.

The Lord cared for Sarah as he had said and did for her what he had promised.

Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. Everything happened at the time God had said it would.

He lived in the Desert of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him in Egypt.

And Abraham lived as a stranger in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took Isaac and two servants with him. After he cut the wood for the sacrifice, they went to the place God had told them to go.

Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and gave it to his son to carry, but he himself took the knife and the fire. So he and his son went on together.

Abraham answered, "God will give us the lamb for the sacrifice, my son." So Abraham and his son went on together

He said to them, "If you truly want to help me bury my dead wife here, speak to Ephron, the son of Zohar for me.

He said to Ephron before all the people, "Please let me pay you the full price for the field. Accept my money, and I will bury my dead there."

Make a promise to me before the Lord , the God of heaven and earth. Don't get a wife for my son from the Canaanite girls who live around here.

Instead, go back to my country, to the land of my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac."

The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.' The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.

The servant said, " Lord , God of my master Abraham, allow me to find a wife for his son today. Please show this kindness to my master Abraham.

I will say to one of them, ‘Please put your jar down so I can drink.' Then let her say, ‘Drink, and I will also give water to your camels.' If that happens, I will know she is the right one for your servant Isaac and that you have shown kindness to my master."

After he finished drinking, Rebekah said, "I will also pour some water for your camels."