rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their 9 ears: and the men were sore afraid. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to 10 be done. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this I thing? And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and 12 they will slay me for my wife's sake. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and 13 she became my wife: and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is 14 my brother. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored 15 him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it 16 pleaseth thee. And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, 'it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and in respect 17 of all thou art righted. And Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare 18 children. For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

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And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a

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son in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him. And Abraham called the 3
name of his son that was born unto him, whom
Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham cir- 4
cumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days
old, as God had commanded him. And Abra- 5
ham was an hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, 6
God hath made me to laugh; every one that
heareth will laugh with me.
And she said, 7
Who would have said unto Abraham, that
Sarah should give children suck? for I have
borne him a son in his old age.

And the child grew, and was weaned: and 8 Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son 9 of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne 2 Or, playing unto Abraham, 'mocking. Wherefore she said 10 unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's 11 sight on account of his son. And God said 12

3 Or, skin

unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy
sight because of the lad, and because of thy
bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy
seed be called. And also of the son of the 13
bondwoman will I make a nation, because he
is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early 14
in the morning, and took bread and a 'bottle
of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it
on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her
away: and she departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beer-sheba. And the water in 15
the bottle was spent, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs. And she went, and 16
sat her down over against him a good way off,

as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and 17 wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice 18 of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make 19 him a great nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad 20 drink. And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and 21 became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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'Or, became, as he grew up, an archer

2

Or, my offspring, nor

with my

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee 23 in all that thou doest: now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, posterity and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24, 25 And Abraham said, I will swear. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently 26 taken away. And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave

them unto Abimelech; and they two made 28 a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe 29 lambs of the flock by themselves. And Abime

lech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven
ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt 30 thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. Where- 31 fore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. So they made 32 a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. And 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. And Abraham 34 sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

And it came to pass after these things, that I 22 God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. And he 2 said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose early in the 3 morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham 4 lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide 5 ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will yonder; and we will worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the 6 burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together. And 7 Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

go

Heb. see for himself.

ing to many

8 And Abraham said, God will 'provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son so they 9 went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him 10 on the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to II slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, 12 Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and "behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket? Or, accordby his horns and Abraham went and took the ancient ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in authorities, 14 the stead of his son. And Abraham called the (Heb. one) name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said ram caught to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall The LORD 15 be provided. And the angel of the LORD will see, or, called unto Abraham a second time out of 4 Or, he shall 16 heaven, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only 17 son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess 18 the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth 'be blessed; because Or, bless 19 thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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themselves