and went unto the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I
and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you,
6 And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went
both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of
them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there,
and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the LORD
called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said,
Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name
of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
15 And the
angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have
I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of
the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my
voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and
Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying,
Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, 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 Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 And his concubine,
whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn
for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons
of Heth, saying,
4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with
you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury
thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And
Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
8 And he
communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me,
and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession
of a buryingplace amongst you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his
city, saying,
11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in
the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
12 And Abraham bowed down himself
before the people of the land.
13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land,
saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and
I will bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
15 My lord, hearken unto
me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead.
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he
had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the
merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and
the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round
about, were made sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before