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I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God."

God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

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

And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live in your sight!"

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

And when he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

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

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman."

Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

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

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

Now Sarah said, "God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you.

And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

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