Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

And God said to Abraham, "Now [as for] you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.

And God said to Abraham, "[as for] Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [shall be] her name.

And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "{Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old}, or {can Sarah bear a child at ninety}?"

And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all [those] acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him.

Abraham [was] ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

Abraham and his son Ishmael [were] circumcised on the same day.

Then Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, "Quickly--make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!"

And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a {calf}, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it.

Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old, {advanced in age}; {the way of women} had ceased to be for Sarah.

Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What [is] this [that] Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true [that] I will bear a child, now [that] I have grown old?'

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them {to send them on their way}.

Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I [am going] to do?

Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.

For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."

And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham [was] still standing before Yahweh.

And Abraham drew near [to Yahweh] and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I [am] dust and ashes.

Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

And Abraham arose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

And Abraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he settled between Kadesh and Shur. And he dwelled as an alien in Gerar.

And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She [is] my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not be done."

And Abimelech said to Abraham, "{What were you thinking} that you did this thing?"

And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.

And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave [them] to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they [could] bear children [again].

For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

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

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

And Abraham [was] one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

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

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

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

Then she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."

And the matter {displeased Abraham very much} on account of his son.

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.

And it happened [that] at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God [is] with you, in all that you do.

And Abraham said, "I swear."

Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized.

And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave [them] to Abimelech. And the two of them {made} a covenant.

Then Abraham set [off] seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What [is the meaning of] these seven ewe-lambs that you have set [off] by themselves?"

And Abraham dwelled as an alien in the land of the Philistines many days.

And it happened [that] after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I [am]."

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him.

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.

And Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you."

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed [it] on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together.

And Isaac said to Abraham his father, "My father!" And he said, "Here I [am], my son." And he said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

And Abraham said, "{God will provide} the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went together.

And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood.

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

And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" And he said, "Here I [am]."

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

And Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh {will provide}," {for which reason} it is said today, "on the mountain of Yahweh {it shall be provided}."

And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven.

And Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba.

And it happened [that] after these things, it was told to Abraham, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:

(Now, Bethuel fathered Rebekah). These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites [and] said,

And the Hittites answered Abraham [and] said to him,

And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.

Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city, [and] said,

And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites, with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city.

And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan

And the field and the cave which [was] in it {passed} to Abraham as {a burial site} from the Hittites.

Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh

Abraham said to him, "{You must take care} that you do not return my son there.

Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter.

And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham.

And it happened [that] before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah--who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham--came out, and her jar [was] on her shoulder.

And he said, "Blessed [be] Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I [was] on the way [and] Yahweh led me [to] the house of my master's brother."

And he said, "I [am] the servant of Abraham.

Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful}, upon which I am going.

And I knelt down and worshiped Yahweh, and I praised Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way, to take the daughter of the brother of my master for his son.

And it happened [that] when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh.

So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men.

Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.

And Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

But to the sons of Abraham's concubines Abraham gave gifts. And while he [was] still living he sent them away eastward, [away] from his son Isaac, to the land of the east.

Now these [are] the days of the years of {the life of Abraham}: one hundred and seventy-five years.

And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.

the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.

And it happened [that] after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi.

Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham.

Now these [are] the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac,

And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father.

because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.