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Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!"

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

So he said to his servants, "You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you."

Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site."

and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."

"Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."

So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth—400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

So Abraham secured Ephron's field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord , the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

"The Lord , the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.