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And God said to Abraham, "Now as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.

And God said to Abraham, "as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name.

And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

And God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.

When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, "Look, you are a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she is a married woman."

Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.

And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.

And it happened that as God caused me to wander from the house of my father I said to her, ‘This is your loyal kindness that you must do for me at every place where we come: say concerning me, "He is my brother."'"

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they could bear children again.

And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me."

Then God said to Abraham, "Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. Listen to everything that Sarah said to you, for through Isaac your offspring will be named.

And God heard the cry of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, "What is the matter Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry of the boy from where he is.

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.

And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became an expert with a bow.

And it happened that at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you, in all that you do.