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Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

And Abraham reached out with his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

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.

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived in Beersheba.

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Then Abraham arose from mourning before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

"Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead."

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site."

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham so that the sons of Heth heard, that is, all who entered the gate of his city, saying,

to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city.

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household who was in charge of all that he owned, "Please place your hand under my thigh,

"The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land'—He will send His angel ahead of you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and went out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; so he set out and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

Meanwhile, the man was taking a close look at her in silence, to find out whether the LORD had made his journey successful or not.

And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned His kindness and His trustworthiness toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers."

When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.