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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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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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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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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.
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The Treaty at Beersheba
At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
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Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.
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After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
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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?”
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If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
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See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
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“Come, you who are blessed by the Lord,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
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“Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
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“When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.
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See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”
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Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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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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The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
