I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

One of them said, “I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

Look, I have two daughters who have never been intimate with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can go to bed with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given 1,000 pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

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

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba; then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

The servant asked him, “What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman!