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Abraham named his son Isaac,

Who would have dared to tell Abraham that someday I would have a child? But in his old age, I have given him a son."

but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation."

Help him up and hold his hand, because I will make him the father of a great nation."

God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows. He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.

About this time Abimelech and his army commander Phicol said to Abraham, "God blesses everything you do!

Abraham separated seven female lambs from his flock of sheep,

When the treaty was completed, Abimelech and his army commander Phicol went back to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.

He told his servants, "Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back."

when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.

He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.

Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it in place of his son.

to sell me Machpelah Cave at the end of his field. I'll pay what it's worth, and all of you can be witnesses."

So Abraham buried his wife Sarah in Machpelah Cave that was in the field

One day, Abraham called in his most trusted servant and said to him, "Solemnly promise me

The Lord who rules heaven brought me here from the land where I was born and promised that he would give this land to my descendants forever. When you go back there, the Lord will send his angel ahead of you to help you find a wife for my son.

So the servant gave Abraham his word that he would do everything he had been told to do.

While he was still praying, a beautiful unmarried young woman came by with a water jar on her shoulder. She was Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah. Rebekah walked past Abraham's servant, then went over to the well, and filled her water jar. When she started back,

After he had finished, she said, "Now I'll give your camels all the water they want." She quickly poured out water for them, and she kept going back for more, until his camels had drunk all they wanted.