Abraham

So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

“I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied.

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.