Abraham

And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,

And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.

And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:

Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

Abraham took this grievously for his son.

And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

And Abraham said: I will swear.

And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.

And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.

After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.