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And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'
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And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.'
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Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.
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So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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And Abraham planted a tamarisk-tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
-- End of Genesis - Chapter 021 --
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Genesis - Chapter 022
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And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him: 'Abraham'; and he said: 'Here am I.'
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And He said: 'Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.'
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And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he cleaved the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
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And Abraham said unto his young men: 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.'
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.
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And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said: 'My father.' And he said: 'Here am I, my son.' And he said: 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?'
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And Abraham said: 'God will provide Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son.' So they went both of them together.
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And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
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And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
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And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said: 'Abraham, Abraham.' And he said: 'Here am I.'
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And he said: 'Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.'
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
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And Abraham called the name of that place Adonai-jireh; as it is said to this day: 'In the mount where the Lord is seen.'
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And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven,
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and said: 'By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,
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that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
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and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'
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So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
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And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying: 'Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:
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Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;
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and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.'
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And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
-- End of Genesis - Chapter 022 --
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Genesis - Chapter 023
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And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying:
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'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'
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And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:
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'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'
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And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
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And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,