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Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."

To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you, and before everyone you are cleared."

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

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

And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age."

And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

"And of the son of the slave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant."

So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, "May I not see the boy die!" And she sat opposite him, and raised her voice and wept.

"Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him."

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well."

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

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."

On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in the place of his son.

Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,