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¹The LORD came to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

²Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

³Abraham named his son who was born to him — the one Sarah bore to him — Isaac.

⁴When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

⁵Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

⁷She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”

⁸The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

⁹But Sarah saw the son mocking — the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

¹⁰So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”

¹¹This was very distressing to Abraham because of his son.

¹²But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

¹³and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”

¹⁴Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

¹⁵When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes

¹⁶and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she wept loudly.

¹⁷God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

¹⁸Get up, help the boy up, and grasp his hand, for I will make him a great nation.”

¹⁹Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

²⁰God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

²¹He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

²²At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

²³Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”

²⁴And Abraham said, “I swear it.”

²⁵But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

²⁶Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”

²⁷Abraham took flocks and herds and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

²⁸Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.

²⁹And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs?”

³⁰He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”

³¹Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

³²After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

³⁴And Abraham lived as an alien in the land of the Philistines for many days.

¹After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

²“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

³So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

⁴On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

⁵Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

⁶Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.

⁷Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.” And he replied, “Here I am, my son.” Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

⁸Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.

⁹When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

¹⁰Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.

¹¹But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He replied, “Here I am.”

¹²Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

¹³Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

¹⁴And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide, so today it is said: “It will be provided on the LORD’s mountain.”

¹⁵Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

¹⁶and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the LORD’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,

¹⁷I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.

¹⁸And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”

¹⁹Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

²⁰Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

²¹Uz his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,

²²Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

²³And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

²⁴His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

¹Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

²Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron ) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

³Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hethites:

⁴“I am an alien residing among you. Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.”

⁵The Hethites replied to Abraham,

⁶“Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

⁷Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.

⁸He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

⁹to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as burial property.”

¹⁰Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

¹¹“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the sight of my people. Bury your dead.”

¹²Abraham bowed down to the people of the land

¹³and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

¹⁴Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

¹⁵“My lord, listen to me. Land worth four hundred shekels of silver  — what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

¹⁶Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels of silver.

¹⁷So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre — the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field — became

¹⁸Abraham’s possession in the sight of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city.

¹⁹After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

²⁰The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property.