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Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
Sarah's demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.
One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.
Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham's wife.
My master's wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."
Then they asked him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He replied, "There, in the tent."
So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?"
The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child when I am old?'
Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son."
Then Sarah lied, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. But the Lord said, "No! You did laugh."
So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.
To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your 'brother.' This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you."
So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
Abraham named his son -- whom Sarah bore to him -- Isaac.
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
She went on to say, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!"
But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian -- the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham -- mocking.
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
Then she died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.
So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.
When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.
These were the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath.
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