Bible Verses About Abraham

Yitz'chak spoke to Avraham his father: "My father?" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

Avraham replied, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son"; and they both went on together.

They came to the place God had told him about; and Avraham built the altar there, set the wood in order, bound Yitz'chak his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Then Avraham put out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

But the angel of ADONAI called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!"He answered, "Here I am."

He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy! Don't do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

Avraham raised his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. Avraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Avraham called the place ADONAI Yir'eh [ADONAI will see (to it), ADONAI provides] -as it is said to this day, "On the mountain ADONAI is seen."

The angel of ADONAI called to Avraham a second time out of heaven.

He said, "I have sworn by myself - says ADONAI- that because you have done this, because you haven't withheld your son, your only son,

I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,

and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed - because you obeyed my order."

So Avraham returned to his young men. They got up and went together to Be'er-Sheva, and Avraham settled in Be'er-Sheva.

Sarah lived to be 127 years old; these were the years of Sarah's life.

Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba, also known as Hevron, in the land of Kena'an; and Avraham came to mourn Sarah and weep for her.

Then he got up from his dead one and said to the sons of Het,

"I am a foreigner living as an alien with you; let me have a burial site with you, so that I can bury my dead wife.

The sons of Het answered Avraham,

"Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us, so choose any of our tombs to bury your dead - not one of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

Avraham got up, bowed before the people of the land, the sons of Het,

and spoke with them. "If it is your desire to help me bury my dead, then listen to me: ask 'Efron the son of Tzochar

to give me the cave of Makhpelah, which he owns, the one at the end of his field. He should sell it to me in your presence at its full value; then I will have a burial site of my own."

'Efron the Hitti was sitting among the sons of Het, and he gave Avraham his answer in the presence of the sons of Het who belonged to the ruling council of the city:

"No, my lord, listen to me: I'm giving you the field, with its cave - I'm giving it to you. In the presence of my people I give it to you."

Avraham bowed before the people of the land