No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

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

Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.

Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.

And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.

But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.

And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.

And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

So Ephron said to Abraham

And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan

And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.

And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.

Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.

So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.

And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac;

Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.

Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:

Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:

Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.