On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.

Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hittites, the people of the land.

Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham:

Abraham bowed down to the people of the land

Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

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

The field with its cave passed from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.

“Today when I came to the spring, I prayed: Lord, God of my master Abraham, if only You will make my journey successful!

Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah,

Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”

Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’

I will give to you the land
that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.
And I will give the land
to your future descendants.

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, and thy name shall be Abraham, for the father of a multitude of nations have I given thee.

And God will say to Abraham, Thou shalt watch my covenant., thou, and thy seed after thee to their generations.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—
may He bless these boys.
And may they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they grow to be numerous within the land.

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”