Genesis:20-23
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From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb ,
and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur ;
and he sojourned in Gerar .
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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife , "
She is my sister ."
And Abim '
elech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah .
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But God came to Abim '
elech in a dream by night ,
and said to him , "
Behold ,
you are a dead man ,
because of the woman whom you have taken ;
for she is a man '
s wife ."
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Now Abim '
elech had not approached her ;
so he said , "
Lord ,
wilt thou slay an innocent people ?
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Did he not himself say to me , `
She is my sister '?
And she herself said , `
He is my brother .'
In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this ."
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Then God said to him in the dream , "
Yes ,
I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart ,
and it was I who kept you from sinning against me ;
therefore I did not let you touch her .
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Now then restore the man '
s wife ;
for he is a prophet ,
and he will pray for you ,
and you shall live .
But if you do not restore her ,
know that you shall surely die ,
you ,
and all that are yours ."
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So Abim '
elech rose early in the morning ,
and called all his servants ,
and told them all these things ;
and the men were very much afraid .
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Then Abim '
elech 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 my kingdom a great sin ?
You have done to me things that ought not to be done ."
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And Abim '
elech said to Abraham , "
What were you thinking of ,
that you did this thing ?"
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Abraham said , "
I did it because I thought ,
There is no fear of God at all in this place ,
and they will kill me because of my wife .
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Besides she is indeed my sister ,
the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother ;
and she became my wife .
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And when God caused me to wander from my father '
s house ,
I said to her , `
This is the kindness you must do me :
at every place to which we come ,
say of me ,
He is my brother .'"
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Then Abim '
elech took sheep and oxen ,
and male and female slaves ,
and gave them to Abraham ,
and restored Sarah his wife to him .
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And Abim '
elech said , "
Behold ,
my land is before you ;
dwell where it pleases you ."
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To Sarah he said , "
Behold ,
I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver ;
it is your vindication in the eyes of all who are with you ;
and before every one you are righted ."
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Then Abraham prayed to God ;
and God healed Abim '
elech ,
and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children .
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For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abim '
elech because of Sarah ,
Abraham '
s wife .
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The LORD visited Sarah as he had said ,
and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised .
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And Sarah conceived ,
and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him .
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Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him ,
whom Sarah bore him ,
Isaac .
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And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old ,
as God had commanded him .
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him .
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And Sarah said , "
God has made laughter for me ;
every one who hears will laugh over me ."
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And she said , "
Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children ?
Yet I have borne him a son in his old age ."
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And the child grew ,
and was weaned ;
and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned .
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But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian ,
whom she had borne to Abraham ,
playing with her son Isaac .
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So she said to Abraham , "
Cast out this slave woman with her son ;
for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac ."
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And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son .
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But God said to Abraham , "
Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman ;
whatever Sarah says to you ,
do as she tells you ,
for through Isaac shall your descendants be named .
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And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also ,
because he is your offspring ."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning ,
and took bread and a skin of water ,
and gave it to Hagar ,
putting it on her shoulder ,
along with the child ,
and sent her away .
And she departed ,
and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba .
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When the water in the skin was gone ,
she cast the child under one of the bushes .
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Then she went ,
and sat down over against him a good way off ,
about the distance of a bowshot ;
for she said , "
Let me not look upon the death of the child ."
And as she sat over against him ,
the child lifted up his voice and wept .
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And God heard the voice of the lad ;
and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven ,
and said to her , "
What troubles you ,
Hagar ?
Fear not ;
for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is .
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Arise ,
lift up the lad ,
and hold him fast with your hand ;
for I will make him a great nation ."
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Then God opened her eyes ,
and she saw a well of water ;
and she went ,
and filled the skin with water ,
and gave the lad a drink .
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And God was with the lad ,
and he grew up ;
he lived in the wilderness ,
and became an expert with the bow .
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran ;
and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt .
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At that time Abim '
elech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham , "
God is with you in all that you do ;
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now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity ,
but as I have dealt loyally with you ,
you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned ."
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And Abraham said , "
I will swear ."
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When Abraham complained to Abim '
elech about a well of water which Abim '
elech '
s servants had seized ,
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Abim '
elech said , "
I do not know who has done this thing ;
you did not tell me ,
and I have not heard of it until today ."
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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim '
elech ,
and the two men made a covenant .
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Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart .
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And Abim '
elech said to Abraham , "
What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart ?"
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He said , "
These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand ,
that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well ."
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Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba ;
because there both of them swore an oath .
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So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba .
Then Abim '
elech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines .
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba ,
and called there on the name of the LORD ,
the Everlasting God .
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And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines .
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After these things God tested Abraham ,
and said to him , "
Abraham !"
And he said , "
Here am I ."
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He said , "
Take your son ,
your only son Isaac ,
whom you love ,
and go to the land of Mori '
ah ,
and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you ."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning ,
saddled his ass ,
and took two of his young men with him ,
and his son Isaac ;
and he cut the wood for the burnt offering ,
and arose and went to the place of which God had told him .
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off .
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Then Abraham said to his young men , "
Stay here with the ass ;
I and the lad will go yonder and worship ,
and come again to you ."
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering ,
and laid it on Isaac his son ;
and he took in his hand the fire and the knife .
So they went both of them together .
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And Isaac said to his father Abraham , "
My father !"
And he said , "
Here am I ,
my son ."
He said , "
Behold ,
the fire and the wood ;
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ?"
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Abraham said , "
God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering ,
my son ."
So they went both of them together .
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When they came to the place of which God had told him ,
Abraham built an altar there ,
and laid the wood in order ,
and bound Isaac his son ,
and laid him on the altar ,
upon the wood .
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Then Abraham put forth his hand ,
and took the knife to slay his son .
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But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven ,
and said , "
Abraham ,
Abraham !"
And he said , "
Here am I ."
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He said , "
Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him ;
for now I know that you fear God ,
seeing you have not withheld your son ,
your only son ,
from me ."
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and behold ,
behind him was a ram ,
caught in a thicket by his horns ;
and Abraham went and took the ram ,
and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son .
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So Abraham called the name of that place The LORD will provide ;
as it is said to this day , "
On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided ."
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And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven ,
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and said , "
By myself I have sworn ,
says the LORD ,
because you have done this ,
and have not withheld your son ,
your only son ,
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I will indeed bless you ,
and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore .
And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies ,
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and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves ,
because you have obeyed my voice ."
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So Abraham returned to his young men ,
and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba ;
and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba .
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Now after these things it was told Abraham , "
Behold ,
Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor :
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Uz the first-born ,
Buz his brother ,
Kemu '
el the father of Aram ,
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Chesed ,
Hazo ,
Pildash ,
Jidlaph ,
and Bethu '
el ."
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Bethu '
el became the father of Rebekah .
These eight Milcah bore to Nahor ,
Abraham '
s brother .
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Moreover ,
his concubine ,
whose name was Reumah ,
bore Tebah ,
Gaham ,
Tahash ,
and Ma '
acah .
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Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years ;
these were the years of the life of Sarah .
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And Sarah died at Kir '
iath-ar '
ba (
that is ,
Hebron )
in the land of Canaan ;
and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her .
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead ,
and said to the Hittites ,
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I am a stranger and a sojourner among you ;
give me property among you for a burying place ,
that I may bury my dead out of my sight ."
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The Hittites answered Abraham ,
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Hear us ,
my lord ;
you are a mighty prince among us .
Bury your dead in the choicest of our sepulchres ;
none of us will withhold from you his sepulchre ,
or hinder you from burying your dead ."
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Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites ,
the people of the land .
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And 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 the son of Zohar ,
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that he may give me the cave of Mach-pe '
lah ,
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 ."
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Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites ;
and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites ,
of all who went in at the gate of his city ,
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No ,
my lord ,
hear me ;
I give you the field ,
and I give you the cave that is in it ;
in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you ;
bury your dead ."
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Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land .
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And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land , "
But if you will ,
hear me ;
I will give the price of the field ;
accept it from me ,
that I may bury my dead there ."
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Ephron answered Abraham ,
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My lord ,
listen to me ;
a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver ,
what is that between you and me ?
Bury your dead ."
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Abraham agreed with Ephron ;
and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the Hittites ,
four hundred shekels of silver ,
according to the weights current among the merchants .
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So the field of Ephron in Mach-pe '
lah ,
which was to the east of Mamre ,
the field with the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field ,
throughout its whole area ,
was made over
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to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites ,
before all who went in at the gate of his city .
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After this ,
Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Mach-pe '
lah east of Mamre (
that is ,
Hebron )
in the land of Canaan .
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The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a burying place by the Hittites .
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Now Abraham was old ,
well advanced in years ;
and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things .
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