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and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."

And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

"I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

"Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold from you any burial ground for burying your dead."

He said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron son of Zohar,

so that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place."

Abraham agreed with Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

and I will make you swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac."

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 swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Let the girl to whom I shall say, ‘Please offer your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels'—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master."

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."

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

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

and said, "Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

and said, "Blessed be the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master's kin."

He said, "Come in, O blessed of the Lord . Why do you stand outside when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"

So the man came into the house; and Laban unloaded the camels, and gave him straw and fodder for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;

but you shall go to my father's house, to my kindred, and get a wife for my son.'