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Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
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And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
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They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
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And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
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I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
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I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
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Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
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Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
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Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.
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And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
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Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
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to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city.
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The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
