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So Abimelech got up early in the morning. He called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid.

So Abraham prayed to God. And God healed Abimelech, his wife and the women who served him, so that they gave birth to children.

She said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet when he is so old I have given him a son."

So Sarah said to Abraham, "Put this woman servant and her son out of your home. The son of this woman servant will never get any of the riches of the family as will my son Isaac."

So Abraham got up early in the morning. He took bread and a leather bag of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. He gave her the boy, and sent her away. She left, and went from place to place in the desert in Beersheba.

But God heard the voice of the boy. Then the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said, "Why are you so troubled, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heard the cry of the boy.

So promise me here by God that you will not work against me, or my son, or any children after me. I have shown you kindness. So return kindness to me and to the land where you have come."

So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. Then the two men made an agreement.

So he gave that place the name Beersheba because both of them made a promise there.

So they made an agreement at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the head of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

So Abraham got up early in the morning and got his donkey ready. He took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac. He cut wood for the burnt gift. And he went to the place where God told him to go.

Abraham said, "God will have for Himself a lamb ready for the burnt gift, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

So Abraham returned to his young men. And they got up and went with him to Beersheba. Abraham made his home there.

"I am a stranger living among you for a time. Give me some of your land so I may bury my wife."

So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.

Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham so what he said could be heard by the sons of Heth and all who came in through the gate of his city.

He said to Ephron so that all the people of the land heard it, "Listen to me if you will. I will give you the price of the field. Receive it from me, that I may bury my wife there."

"My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred pieces of silver. What is that between me and you? So bury your wife."

So Ephron's field in Machpelah east of Mamre, the field and grave that was in it, and all the trees within the sides of the field, were handed over

So the servant placed his hand under the hip of Abraham, and he promised to do this.