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And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.

And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.

And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,

Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?

And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram, amongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,

And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.

My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.

That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.

Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father’s house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.

The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.

And he took ten camels of his master’s herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.

But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.