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And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession and I will be their God.

And God said to Abraham, You shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations.

And God said to Abraham, You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name;

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

And God said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

And He finished talking with him. And God went up from Abraham.

And it happened when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham; and He sent Lot out from the overthrow when overturning the cities in which Lot lived.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, you are about to die because of the woman you have taken, she being married to a husband.

And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

And it happened when God made me wander from my father's house, even I said to her, This is your kindness which you do to me: at every place where we come there, say of me, He is my brother.

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his concubines, and they gave birth.

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

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him.

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

And God said to Abraham, Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy, and on account of your slave-girl. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your Seed shall be called.

And God heard the voice of the young boy. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of the heavens. And He said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy, there 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 drink to the young boy.

And God was with the boy. And he grew up. And he lived in the wilderness and became a great archer.

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