Abraham

Avraham said to the servant who had served him the longest, who was in charge of all he owned, "Put your hand under my thigh;

Avraham said to him, "See to it that you don't bring my son back there.

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning the matter.

He said, "ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, please let me succeed today; and show your grace to my master Avraham.

Before he had finished speaking, Rivkah the daughter of B'tu'el son of Milkah the wife of Nachor Avraham's brother, came out with her jug on her shoulder.

Then he said, "Blessed be ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master; because ADONAI has guided me to the house of my master's kinsmen."

He said, "I am Avraham's servant.

"So today, I came to the spring and said, 'ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, if you are causing my trip to succeed in its purpose,

bowed my head, prostrated myself before ADONAI and blessed ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, for having led me in the right way to obtain my master's brother's [grand]daughter for his son.

When Avraham's servant heard what they said, he prostrated himself on the ground to ADONAI.

So they sent their sister Rivkah away, with her nurse, Avraham's servant and his men.

Avraham took another wife, whose name was K'turah.

Avraham gave everything he owned to Yitz'chak.

But to the sons of the concubines he made grants while he was still living and sent them off to the east, to the land of Kedem, away from Yitz'chak his son.

This is how long Avraham lived: 175 years.

Then Avraham breathed his last, dying at a ripe old age, an old man full of years; and he was gathered to his people.

the field which Avraham purchased from the sons of Het. Avraham was buried there with Sarah his wife.

After Avraham died, God blessed Yitz'chak his son, and Yitz'chak lived near Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i.

Here is the genealogy of Yishma'el, Avraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian woman bore to Avraham.

Here is the history of Yitz'chak, Avraham's son. Avraham fathered Yitz'chak.

A famine came over the land, not the same as the first famine, which had taken place when Avraham was alive. Yitz'chak went to G'rar, to Avimelekh king of the P'lishtim.

Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, because I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants. I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Avraham your father -

All this is because Avraham heeded what I said and did what I told him to do -he followed my mitzvot, my regulations and my teachings."

Now the P'lishtim had stopped up and filled with dirt all the wells his father's servants had dug during the lifetime of Avraham his father.

Yitz'chak reopened the wells which had been dug during the lifetime of Avraham his father, the ones the P'lishtim had stopped up after Avraham died, and called them by the names his father had used for them.