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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

She added, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

"Stay here with the donkey," Abraham told his servants. "The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you."

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" "Here I am, my son," he replied. "The fire and the wood are here," said Isaac, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

"Listen to us, sir. You are God's chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead."

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site."

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,