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And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

And Abraham said to his young men, You stay here with the ass. I and the boy will go over there that we may worship and may return to you.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac; and he took the fire and the knife in his hand. And the two went together.

And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And they came to the place which God had said to him. And Abraham built there the altar, and arranged the wood. And he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

And Abraham put out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold! A ram behind him was entangled in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it for a burnt offering instead of his son.

that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the shore of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham lived at Beer-sheba.

Uz, his first-born, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram,

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

And Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

Hear us, my lord. You are a prince among us. Bury your dead in the best of our burying places. Not a man of us will withhold his burying place from you, from burying your dead.

that he may give to me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is in the edge of his field. In full silver let him give it to me among you, for a possession of a burying place.

And Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, to all those entering the gate of his city, saying,

to Abraham for a purchase before the sons of Heth, with all entering the gate of his city.

And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

And Abraham said to his slave, oldest in his house, the one who governed in all that was to him, Please put your hand under my thigh.

Jehovah, God of Heaven, who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to your Seed; He shall send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wifefrom there for my son.

And the slave put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore to him concerning this thing.