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This troubled Abraham very much because Ishmael was also his son.

Help him up and take him by the hand. I will make his descendants into a great nation."

He lived in the Desert of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him in Egypt.

Then Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.

After Abraham and Abimelech made the agreement at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took Isaac and two servants with him. After he cut the wood for the sacrifice, they went to the place God had told them to go.

He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey. My son and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you."

Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and gave it to his son to carry, but he himself took the knife and the fire. So he and his son went on together.

Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" Abraham answered, "Yes, my son." Isaac said, "We have the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb we will burn as a sacrifice?"

Abraham answered, "God will give us the lamb for the sacrifice, my son." So Abraham and his son went on together

and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.

Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son.

Then Abraham looked up and saw a male sheep caught in a bush by its horns. So Abraham went and took the sheep and killed it. He offered it as a whole burnt offering to God, and his son was saved.

Then Abraham returned to his servants. They all traveled back to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.

After these things happened, someone told Abraham: "Your brother Nahor and his wife Milcah have children now.

Also Nahor had four other sons by his slave woman Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

After a while he got up from the side of his wife's body and went to talk to the Hittites. He said,

Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah at the edge of his field. I will pay him the full price. You can be the witnesses that I am buying it as a burial place."

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. (Mamre was later called Hebron in the land of Canaan.)

Abraham said to his oldest servant, who was in charge of everything he owned, "Put your hand under my leg.