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Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
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The Birth of Isaac
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
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Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away
The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.
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and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
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But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
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Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
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Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Isaac and Rebekah
Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
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but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”
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May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
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Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel
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Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.
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Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
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But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
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His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
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After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
