Abraham

And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.

And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,

Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?

And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.

And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram, amongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.

And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:

Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor, Abraham's brother.

And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

The children of Heth answered, saying:

Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:

Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

And Ephron answered:

And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.

Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed him in all things.