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Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

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

And they made a league for the well of oath.

And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,

And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.

And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.

And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.

So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his company.

And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.

And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty.

And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:

And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.

Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.