Genesis 23:1 — Genesis 23:20

1 And the life of Sarah was one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

3 Then Abraham rose up from before his dead wife and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

4 I am a stranger and a sojourner among you. Give me the possession of a burial place among you that I may bury my dead wife out of my sight.

5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

6 Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God in our midst. In the choicest of our burial places bury your dead wife. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead wife.

7 And Abraham rose up and bowed down to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

8 And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your desire that I should bury my dead wife out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar

9 That he would give me the cave of Machpelah, which is his, and which is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your midst for the possession of a burial place.

10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, in the hearing of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

11 No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave that is in it, to you I give it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you; bury your dead wife.

12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

13 And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, But if you will, please hear me; I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, that I may bury my dead wife there.

14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15 My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Therefore bury your dead wife.

16 And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.

17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah and which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, which were in all its territory, were assured

18 To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.

19 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.

20 And the field and the cave that is in it were assured to Abraham for the possession of a burial place from the children of Heth.

Genesis 22:1 — Genesis 22:24

1 Now after these things God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

2 And He said, Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

3 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.

4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

5 And Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey; and I and the boy will go over there, and we will worship and then return to you.

6 And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked together.

7 And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

8 And Abraham said, God Himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So the two of them walked on together.

9 And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

11 And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

12 And he said, Do not stretch out your hand upon the boy, nor do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.

13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering in place of his son.

14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, On the mount of Jehovah it will be provided.

15 And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham a second time from the heavens

16 And said, By Myself I have sworn, declares Jehovah: Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

17 I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

18 And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.

20 And after these things it was told Abraham, saying, Milcah has now also borne children to your brother Nahor:

21 Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram

22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel;

23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis 21:17 — Genesis 21:34

17 And God heard the voice of the boy. And the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

18 Rise up; lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.

19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the waterskin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20 And God was with the boy, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22 And at that time Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. According to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall do to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.

24 And Abraham said, I swear it.

25 And Abraham confronted Abimelech concerning the well of water which Abimelech’s servants had taken by force.

26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; and you did not tell me about it, nor have I even heard of it until today.

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?

30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.

31 Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up with Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.

34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Genesis 20:11 — Genesis 21:16

11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

12 But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

13 And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, This is your kindness which you must do to me: At every place where we go, say of me, He is my brother.

14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he returned to him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech said, My land is now before you; dwell wherever it pleases you.

16 And to Sarah he said, I have now given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is now your vindication before all who are with you. And in every respect you have been cleared.

17 And Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants, so that they bore children.

18 For Jehovah had completely shut up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

CHAPTER 21

1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as He had promised.

2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

6 And Sarah said, God has made me laugh; everyone who hears will laugh with me.

7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.

8 And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10 So she said to Abraham, Cast out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son Isaac.

11 And the matter displeased Abraham greatly on account of his son.

12 And God said to Abraham, Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of your maidservant. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

13 And of the son of the maidservant I will also make a nation, because he is your seed.

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a waterskin full of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15 When the water in the waterskin was finished, she cast the child under one of the bushes.

16 And she went and sat herself down opposite him, a fair distance away, about a bowshot away, for she said, Do not let me look upon the death of the child. And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 19:30 — Genesis 20:10

30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine; and let us lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

34 And the next day the firstborn said to the younger, I have now lain with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight also; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger one arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

37 And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

CHAPTER 20

1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the region of the Negev and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, You are now about to die because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her, so he said, Lord, will You slay even a righteous nation?

5 Did he himself not say to me, She is my sister? And even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.

6 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 prevented you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

7 Now therefore return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.

8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and spoke all these things in their hearing. And the men were very afraid.

9 Then Abimelech 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 on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.

10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?