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Genesis 20

    ²And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem].

    ³But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken [as your own], for she is a man's wife.

    ⁴But Abimelech had not come near her, so he said, Lord, will you slay a people who are just and innocent?

    ⁵Did not the man tell me, She is my sister? And she herself said, He is my brother. In integrity of heart and innocency of hands I have done this.

    ⁶Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know you did this in the integrity of your heart, for it was I Who kept you back and spared you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not give you occasion to touch her.

    ⁷So now restore to the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her [to him], know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.

    ⁸So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were exceedingly filled with reverence and fear.

    ⁹Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And how have I offended you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me what ought not to be done [to anyone].

    ¹⁰And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see [in us] that [justified] you in doing such a thing as this?

    ¹¹And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no reverence or fear of God at all in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

    ¹²But truly, she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father but not of my mother; and she became my wife.

    ¹³When God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, This kindness you can show me: at every place we stop, say of me, He is my brother.

    ¹⁴Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and restored to him Sarah his wife.

    ¹⁵And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you; dwell wherever it pleases you.

    ¹⁶And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given this brother of yours a thousand pieces of silver; see, it is to compensate you [for all that has occurred] and to vindicate your honor before all who are with you; before all men you are cleared and compensated.

    ¹⁷So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, and they bore children,

    ¹⁸For the Lord had closed fast the wombs of all in Abimelech's household because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 21

    ²For Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time God had told him.

    ³Abraham ^[b]named his son whom Sarah bore to him Isaac [laughter].

    ⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

    ⁵Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born.

    ⁶And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh; all who hear will laugh with me.

    ⁷And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children at the breast? For I have borne him a son in his old age!^(A)

    ⁸And the child grew and was ^[c]weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

    ⁹Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking [Isaac].

    ¹⁰Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.^(B)

    ¹¹And the thing was very grievous (serious, evil) in Abraham's sight on account of his son [Ishmael].

    ¹²God said to Abraham, Do not let it seem grievous and evil to you because of the youth and your bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said to you, do what she asks, for in Isaac shall your posterity be called.^(C)

    ¹³And I will make a nation of the son of the bondwoman also, because he is your offspring.

    ¹⁴So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulders, and he sent her and the ^[d]youth away. And she wandered on [aimlessly] and lost her way in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    ¹⁵When the water in the bottle was all gone, Hagar caused the youth to lie down under one of the shrubs.

    ¹⁶Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot, for she said, Let me not see the death of the lad. And as she sat down opposite him, ^[e]he lifted up his voice and wept and she raised her voice and wept.

    ¹⁷And God heard the voice of the youth, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

    ¹⁸Arise, raise up the youth and support him with your hand, for I intend to make him a great nation.

    ¹⁹Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] bottle with water and caused the youth to drink.

    ²⁰And God was with the youth, and he developed; and he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.

    ²¹He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

    ²²At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, God is with you in everything you do.

    ²³So now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my son or with my posterity; but as I have dealt with you kindly, you will do the same with me and with the land in which you have sojourned.

    ²⁴And Abraham said, I will swear.

    ²⁵When Abraham complained to and reasoned with Abimelech about a well of water [Abimelech's] servants had violently seized,

    ²⁶Abimelech said, I know not who did this thing; you did not tell me, and I did not hear of it until today.

    ²⁷So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a league or covenant.

    ²⁸Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock,

    ²⁹And Abimelech said to Abraham, What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart mean?

    ³⁰He said, You are to accept these seven ewe lambs from me as a witness for me that I dug this well.

    ³¹Therefore that place was called Beersheba [well of the oath], because there both parties swore an oath.

    ³²Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army returned to the land of the Philistines.

    ³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

    ³⁴And Abraham sojourned in Philistia many days.

Genesis 22

    ²[God] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

    ³So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then began the trip to the place of which God had told him.

    ⁴On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

    ⁵And Abraham said to his servants, Settle down and stay here with the donkey, and I and the young man will go yonder and worship and ^[f]come again to you.

    ⁶Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on [the shoulders of ] Isaac his son, and he took the fire (the firepot) in his own hand, and a knife; and the two of them went on together.

    ⁷And Isaac said to Abraham, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. [Isaac] said, See, here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?

    ⁸Abraham said, My son, ^[g]God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. So the two went on together.

    ⁹When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there; then he laid the wood in order and ^[h]bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood.^(D)

    ¹⁰And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took hold of the knife to slay his son.^(E)

    ¹¹But the ^[i]Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham! He answered, Here I am.

    ¹²And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear and revere God, since you have not held back from Me or begrudged giving Me your son, your only son.

    ¹³Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering and an ascending sacrifice instead of his son!

    ¹⁴So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord it will be provided.

    ¹⁵The Angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time

    ¹⁶And said, I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that since you have done this and have not withheld [from Me] or begrudged [giving Me] your son, your only son,

    ¹⁷In blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore. And your Seed (Heir) will possess the gate of His enemies,^(F)

    ¹⁸And in your Seed [^[j]Christ] shall all the nations of the earth be blessed and [by Him] bless themselves, because you have heard and obeyed My voice.^(G)

    ¹⁹So Abraham returned to his servants, and they rose up and went with him to Beersheba; there Abraham lived.

    ²⁰Now after these things, it was told Abraham, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:

    ²¹Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

    ²²Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

    ²³Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

    ²⁴And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

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¹⁹Do not ^[a]gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.

    ²⁰But ^[b]gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;

    ²¹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

    ²²The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light.

    ²³But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your ^[c]conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!

    ²⁴No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be ^[d]against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (^[e]deceitful riches, money, possessions, or ^[f]whatever is trusted in).

    ²⁵Therefore I tell you, stop being ^[g]perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?

    ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

    ²⁷And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the ^[h]span of his life?^(A)

    ²⁸And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and ^[i]learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.

    ²⁹Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his ^[j]magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. [I Kings 10:4-7.]

    ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

    ³¹Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

    ³²For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

    ³³But seek (^[k]aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (^[l]His way of doing and being right), and then all these things ^[m]taken together will be given you besides.

    ³⁴So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.