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20 Afterward, Abraham departed from there toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech, King of Gerar, sent for and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are indeed dead, because of the woman which you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
4 Notwithstanding, Abimelech had not yet come near her. And he said, “Lord, will you kill even the righteous nation?
5 “Did not he say to me, ‘She is my sister?’ Yes, and she herself said, ‘He is my brother’. With an upright mind, and innocent hands I have done this.”
6 And God said to him by a dream, “Indeed, I know that you did this with an upright mind. And I also restrained you, so that you should not sin against Me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.
7 “Now then, restore the man’s wife to him. For he is a Prophet; and he shall pray for you, so that you may live. But if you do not restore her, be sure that you shall die the death, you and all that you have.”
8 Then Abimelech, rising up early in the morning, called all his servants and told all these things to them; and the men were very afraid.
9 Afterward, Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I offended you, that you have brought this great sin on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.”
10 So Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
11 Then Abraham answered, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
12 “Yet in truth she is my sister. For she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she is my wife.
13 “Now when God caused me to wander out of my father’s house, I said then to her, ‘This is your kindness that you shall show to me in all places where we come: Say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and men servants, and women servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
15 And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
16 Likewise to Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is the veil of your eyes to all that are with you, and to all others.” And she was thus rebuked.
17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his women servants. And they bore children.
18 For the LORD had shut up every womb of the House of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21 Now the LORD visited Sarah, as he had said, and did to her according to His promise.
2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the same season that God told him.
3 And Abraham called his son’s name who was born to him, Isaac (which Sarah bore him).
4 Then Abraham circumcised Isaac, his son, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 So Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me rejoice! All who hear will rejoice with me!”
7 Again she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have given children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 Then the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.
10 Therefore, she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son! For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11 And this thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight, because of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the child, or because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah shall say to you, hear her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.
13 As for the son of the bondwoman, I will make him a nation also; because he is your seed.
14 So Abraham arose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her and the child away. They departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And when the water of the bottle was spent, she cast the child under a certain tree.
16 Then she went and sat opposite him at a distance of about a bow shoot. For she said, “I will not see the death of the child.” And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.
17 Then God heard the voice of the child. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from Heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear. For God has heard the voice of the child where he is.
18 “Arise, take up the child and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great people.”
19 And God opened her eyes; and she saw a well of water. So, she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the boy drink.
20 So God was with the child. And he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and was an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22 And at the same time, Abimelech and Phichol, his chief captain, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
23 “Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not hurt me, nor my children, nor my children’s children. You shall deal with me, and with the country where you have been a stranger, according to the kindness that I have showed you.
24 Then Abraham said, “I will swear.”
25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing. Also, you didn’t tell me, nor had I heard of it, until today.
27 Then Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set apart seven lambs of the flock.
29 Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven lambs mean which you have set apart?
30 And he answered, “Because you shall receive these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I have dug this well.”
31 Therefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swore.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. Afterward, Abimelech and Phichol, the chief captain, rose up and turned again to the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there called on the Name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistines’ land a long season.
22 And after these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham.” Who answered, “Here I am.”
2 And He said, “Take now your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and get to the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will show you.”
3 Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him and Isaac, his son. And he split wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place which God had told him.
4 Then, the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance,
5 and said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The child and I will go yonder and worship and return to you.”
6 Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife. And they both went together.
7 Then Isaac spoke to Abraham, his father, and said, “My father.” And he answered, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Then Abraham answered, “My son, God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering.” So, they both went together.
9 And when they came to the place which God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there. And he arranged the wood and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 And Abraham, stretching forth his hand, took the knife to kill his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from Heaven, saying, “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”
12 Then he said, “Do not lay your hand upon the child, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not spared your only son for My sake.”
13 And Abraham, lifting up his eyes, looked. And behold, there was a ram behind him, caught by the horns in a bush. Then Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah Jireh (as it is said this day, “On the mount will the LORD be seen.”).
15 And the Angel of the LORD cried to Abraham from Heaven a second time,
16 and said, “I have sworn by Myself (says the LORD) because you have done this thing and have not spared your only son.
17 “Therefore, I will surely bless you, and will greatly multiply your seed, as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
18 “And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
19 Then Abraham returned to his servants; and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
20 And after these things, one told Abraham, saying, “Behold Milcah. She has also born children to your brother, Nahor:
21 Huz, his eldest son, and Buz, his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 And his concubine (called Reumah) also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash and Maachah.
19 “Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the Earth, where the moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal.
20 “But lay up treasures for yourselves in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves neither dig through nor steal.
21 “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 “The light of the body is the eye. If then your eye is sound, your whole body shall be light.
23 “But if your eye is wicked, then all your body shall be dark. So, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?
24 “No man can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one, and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not be careful for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Has not life more worth than food? And the body than clothing?
26 “Behold the birds of the heaven. For they neither sow nor reap, nor carry into the barns. Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
27 “Which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his lifespan?
28 “And why do you care for clothes? Learn how the lilies of the field grow. They neither weary nor spin.
29 “Yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 “So, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not do much more to you? O you of little faith.
31 “Therefore, take no thought saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘How shall we be clothed?’
32 “For the Gentiles seek after all these things. And your Heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
33 “But seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 “Care not then for tomorrow. For tomorrow shall care for itself. The day has enough with its own grief.”
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