Therefore shalt thou no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee,

And God said unto Abraham, "See thou keep my covenant, both thou and thy seed after thee in their times.

And God said unto Abraham, "Sarai, thy wife, shall no more be called Sarai: but Sara shall her name be.

And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?"

And Abraham said unto God, "O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!"

And God left off talking with him, and departed up from Abraham.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants born in his house, and all that was bought with money; as many as were men children among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh, even the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he cut off the foreskin of his flesh.

The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son.

And Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara, and said, Make ready at once three pecks of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes."

And Abraham ran unto his beasts and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, which made it ready at once.

Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives.

Then said the LORD unto Abraham, "Wherefore doth Sara laugh saying, 'shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I am old?'

Then the men stood up from thence and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

And the LORD said, "Can I hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do,

seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

And the men departed thence and went to Sodomward. But Abraham stood yet before the LORD,

And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.

And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place.

Abraham rose up early and got him to the place where he stood before the LORD,

But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.

And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.

And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was his sister. Then Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and fetched Sara away.

And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done."

And Abimelech said moreover unto Abraham, "What sawest thou that moved thee to do this thing?"

And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again.

And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.

For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:

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

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

She said also, "Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age?"

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.

Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.

Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.

Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.

And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest.

Then said Abraham, "I will swear."

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together.

And Abraham set seven lambs by themselves.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?"

And Abraham planted a wood in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God:

After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him, "Abraham." And he answered, "Here am I."

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his men with him, and Isaac his son: and clove wood for the sacrifice, and rose up and got him to the place which God had appointed him.

The third day Abraham lift up his eyes and saw the place afar off,

And Abraham took the wood of the sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.

Then spake Isaac unto Abraham his father and said, "My father?" And he answered, "Here am I, my son." And he said, "See, here is fire and wood, but where is the sheep for sacrifice?"

And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide him a sheep for sacrifice." So went they both together.

And when they came unto the place which God showed him, Abraham made an altar there and dressed the wood, and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, above upon the wood.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to have killed his son.

Then the angel of the LORD called unto him from heaven saying, "Abraham, Abraham?" And he answered, "Here am I."

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son.

And Abraham called the name of the place, "The LORD will see." Wherefore it is a common saying this day, "In the mount will the LORD be seen."

And the angel of the LORD cried unto Abraham from heaven the second time,

So turned Abraham again unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor:

And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her.

And Abraham stood up from the corpse, and talked with the sons of Heth saying,

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the children of Heth.

For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying,

Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land,

Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,

And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.

And so both the field and the cave that is therein, was made unto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, of the sons of Heth.

Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.

And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham and sware to him as concerning that matter.

And he said, "LORD God of my master Abraham, send me good speed this day, and show mercy unto my master Abraham.

And it came to pass, yer he had left speaking, that Rebekah came out - the daughter of Bethuel, son to Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother - and her pitcher upon her shoulder.

and said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham which ceaseth not to deal mercifully and truly with my master. For the LORD hath brought me the way to my master's brother's house."

And he said, "I am Abraham's servant,

And I came this day unto the well and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if it be so that thou makest my journey which I go, prosperous:

And I bowed myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

And when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself unto the LORD, flat upon the earth.

Then they brought Rebekah their sister on the way, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and the men that were with him.

Abraham took him another wife called Keturah,

But Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years

Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife.

And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, which dwelt by the well of the living and seeing.

These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, which Hagar the Egyptian, Sara's handmaid, bare unto Abraham.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac.

And there fell a dearth in the land, passing the first dearth that fell in the days of Abraham. Wherefore Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father,

because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept mine ordinances, commandments, statutes and laws."

insomuch that they stopped, and filled up with earth, all the wells which his father's servants digged in his father Abraham's time.

And Isaac digged again, the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, and gave them the same names which his father gave them.

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not; for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

and give thee the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest possess the land - wherein thou art a stranger - which God gave unto Abraham."

then went he unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wife.