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  Abraham Tested 1. Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2  Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” 3  Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.   4  On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.   5  He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” 6  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,   7  Isaac spoke up and said to...

The Birth of Isaac 1. Now the  Lord  was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the  Lord  did for Sarah what he had promised.   2  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.   3  Abraham gave the name Isaac [ a ]  to the son Sarah bore him.   4  When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.   5  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6  Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”   7  And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away 8  The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.   9  But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian...

  Abraham and Abimelek 20  Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,   2  and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. 3  But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.” 4  Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?   5  Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.” 6  Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.   7  Now return the man’s wife...