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And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South ,
and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur .
And he sojourned in Gerar .
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And Abraham said of Sarah his wife ,
She '
s my sister .
And Abimelech king of Gerar sent ,
and took Sarah .
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But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night ,
and said to him ,
Look ,
you are but a dead man ,
because of the woman whom you have taken .
For she is a man '
s wife .
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Now Abimelech had not had any sex with her .
And he said ,
Lord ,
will you slay even a righteous nation ?
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Didn '
t he say to me ,
She '
s my sister ?
And she ,
even she herself said ,
He '
s my brother .
In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this .
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And God said to him in the dream ,
Yes ,
I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this ,
and I also withheld you from sinning against me .
Therefore I didn '
t allow you to have any sex with her .
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Now therefore restore the man '
s wife .
For he is a prophet ,
and he will pray for you ,
and you will live .
And if you don '
t restore her ,
know that you will surely die ,
you ,
and all who are yours .
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And Abimelech rose early in the morning ,
and called all his slaves ,
and told all these things in their ears .
And the men were very afraid .
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Then Abimelech called Abraham ,
and said to him ,
What have you done to us ?
And in what have I sinned against you ,
that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin ?
You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done .
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And Abimelech said to Abraham ,
What did you see ,
that you have done this thing ?
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And Abraham said ,
Because I thought ,
Surely the fear of God is not in this place .
And they will slay me for my wife '
s sake .
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And moreover 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 it came to pass ,
when God caused me to wander from my father '
s house ,
that I said to her ,
This is your kindness which you will show to me .
At every place where we will come ,
say of me ,
He is my brother .
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And Abimelech took sheep and oxen ,
and male slaves and female slaves ,
and gave them to Abraham ,
and restored Sarah his wife to him .
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And Abimelech said ,
Look ,
my land is before you .
Dwell where it pleases you .
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And to Sarah he said ,
See ,
I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver .
Look ,
it is for you a covering of the eyes to all who are with you .
And in respect of all you are righted .
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And Abraham prayed to God .
And God healed Abimelech ,
and his wife ,
and his female slaves .
And they gave birth .
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For Yahweh had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech ,
because of Sarah ,
Abraham '
s wife .
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And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said ,
and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken .
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And Sarah became pregnant ,
and bore Abraham a son in his old age ,
at the set time of which God had spoken to him .
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And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him ,
whom Sarah bore to 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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And Abraham was a hundred years old ,
when his son Isaac was born to him .
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And Sarah said ,
God has made me laugh .
Everyone who hears will laugh with me .
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And she said ,
Who would have said to Abraham ,
that Sarah should nurse sons ?
For 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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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian ,
whom she had borne to Abraham ,
mocking .
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Therefore she said to Abraham ,
Cast out this slave and her son .
For the son of this slave will not be heir with my son ,
even with Isaac .
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And the thing was very grievous in Abraham '
s sight on account of his son .
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And God said to Abraham ,
Don '
t let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad ,
and because of your slave .
In all that Sarah says to you ,
listen to her voice .
For in Isaac will your seed be called .
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And also of the son of the slave I will make into a nation ,
because he is your seed .
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And Abraham rose up early in the morning ,
and took bread and a bottle of water ,
and gave it to Hagar ,
putting it on her shoulder ,
and [
gave her ]
the boy ,
and sent her away .
And she departed ,
and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba .
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And the water in the bottle was spent ,
and she cast the child under one of the shrubs .
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And she went ,
and she sat down across from him a good way off ,
as it were a bowshot .
For she said ,
Don '
t let me see the child '
s death .
And she sat opposite him ,
and lifted up her voice ,
and wept .
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And God heard the voice of the lad .
And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven ,
and said to her ,
What ails you ,
Hagar ?
Don '
t be afraid .
For God has heard the voice of the lad where he is .
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Arise ,
lift up the lad ,
and hold him in your hand .
For I will make him a great nation .
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And God opened her eyes ,
and she saw a well of water .
And she went ,
and filled the bottle with water ,
and gave the lad drink .
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And God was with the lad ,
and he grew .
And he dwelt in the wilderness ,
and became ,
as he grew up ,
an archer .
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And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran .
And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt .
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And it came to pass at that time ,
that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham ,
saying ,
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 ,
nor with my son ,
nor with my son '
s son .
But according to the kindness that I have done to you ,
you will do to me ,
and to the land in which you have sojourned .
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And Abraham said ,
I will swear .
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And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water ,
which Abimelech '
s slaves had violently taken away .
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And Abimelech said ,
I don '
t know who has done this thing .
You did not tell me ,
and I had not heard of it yet ,
but today .
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And Abraham took sheep and oxen ,
and gave them to Abimelech .
And the two made a covenant .
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And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves .
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And Abimelech said to Abraham ,
What do these seven ewe lambs mean which you have set by themselves ?
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And he said ,
These seven ewe lambs you will take of my hand ,
that it may be a witness to me ,
that I have dug this well .
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Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba .
Because there they swore both of them .
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So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba .
And Abimelech rose up ,
and Phicol the captain of his host ,
and they returned into the land of the Philistines .
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And [
Abraham ]
planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba ,
and there called on the name of Yahweh ,
the Everlasting God .
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And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days .
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And it came to pass after these things ,
that God did prove Abraham ,
and said to him ,
Abraham .
And he said ,
Here I am .
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And he said ,
Take now your son ,
your only son ,
whom you love ,
even Isaac ,
and go into the land of Moriah .
And offer him there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of .
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And Abraham rose early in the morning ,
and saddled his donkey ,
and took two of his young men with him ,
and Isaac his son .
And he split the wood for the burnt-offering ,
and rose up ,
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 far off .
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And Abraham said to his young men ,
You (
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note )
remain here with the donkey ,
and I and the lad will go yonder ;
and we will 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 .
And they went both of them together .
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And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father ,
and said ,
My father .
And he said ,
Here I am ,
my son .
And he said ,
Look ,
the fire and the wood .
But where is the lamb for a burnt-offering ?
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And 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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And they came to the place which God had told him of .
And Abraham built the altar there ,
and laid the wood in order ,
and bound Isaac his son ,
and laid him on the altar ,
on the wood .
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And Abraham stretched forth his hand ,
and took the knife to slay his son .
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And the angel of Yahweh called to him out of heaven ,
and said ,
Abraham ,
Abraham .
And he said ,
Here I am .
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And he said ,
Don '
t lay your hand on the lad ,
neither do anything to him .
For now I know that you fear God ,
seeing you haven '
t withheld your son ,
your only son ,
from me .
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes ,
and looked ,
and noticed a ram caught in the thicket by his horns .
And Abraham went and took the ram ,
and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son .
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And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh .
As it is said to this day ,
On the mount of Yahweh it will be provided .
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And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of heaven ,
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and said ,
By myself I have sworn ,
says Yahweh ,
because you have done this thing ,
and haven '
t withheld your son ,
your only son ,
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that in blessing I will bless you ,
and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens ,
and as the sand which is on the seashore .
And your seed will possess the gate of his enemies .
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And in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed .
Because you have obeyed my voice .
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So Abraham returned to his young men ,
and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba .
And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba .
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And it came to pass after these things ,
that it was told Abraham ,
saying ,
Look ,
Milcah ,
she also has borne sons to your brother Nahor .
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Uz his firstborn ,
and Buz his brother ,
and Kemuel the father of Aram .
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And Chesed ,
and Hazo ,
and Pildash ,
and Jidlaph ,
and Bethuel .
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And Bethuel begot Rebekah .
These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor ,
Abraham '
s brother .
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And his concubine ,
whose name was Reumah ,
she also bore Tebah ,
and Gaham ,
and Tahash ,
and Maacah .
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And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years .
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And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (
the same is Hebron ),
in the land of Canaan .
And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah ,
and to weep for her .
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead ,
and spoke to the sons of Heth ,
saying ,
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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you (
note :){+}(:
note ).
Give me a possession of a burying-place with you {+},
that I may bury my dead out of my sight .
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And the sons of Heth answered Abraham ,
saying ,
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Please hear us ,
my lord .
You are a prince of God among us .
In the choice of our tombs bury your dead .
None of us will withhold from you his tomb that you may bury your dead .
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And Abraham rose up ,
and bowed himself to the people of the land ,
even to the sons of Heth .
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And he communed with them ,
saying ,
If it is your (
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mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight ,
hear me ,
and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar ,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah ,
which he has ,
which is in the end of his field .
For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you (
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for a possession of a burying-place .
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Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth .
And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth ,
even of all who went in at the gate of his city ,
saying ,
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Please ,
my lord ,
hear me .
The field I give you ,
and the cave that is in it ,
I give it you .
In the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you .
Bury your dead .
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And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land .
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And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land ,
saying ,
But if you will ,
I pray you ,
hear me .
I will give the price of the field .
Take it of me ,
and I will bury my dead there .
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And Ephron answered Abraham ,
saying ,
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Please my lord ,
listen to me .
A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver ,
what is that between me and you ?
Bury therefore your dead .
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And Abraham listened to Ephron .
And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth ,
four hundred shekels of silver ,
current [
money ]
with the merchant .
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So the field of Ephron ,
which was in Machpelah ,
which was before Mamre ,
the field ,
and the cave which was in it ,
and all the trees that were in the field ,
that were in all its border round about ,
were made sure
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to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth ,
before all who went in at the gate of his city .
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And after this ,
Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (
that is Hebron ),
in the land of Canaan .
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And the field ,
and the cave that is in it ,
were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the sons of Heth .
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And Abraham was old , [
and ]
well stricken in age .
And Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things .