Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ¹  (although I am but dust and ashes), ² 

Abraham got up early in the morning and went ¹  to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ¹  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ²  in Gerar,

Then Abimelech asked ¹  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” ² 

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

So Sarah became pregnant ¹  and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. ¹ 

When his son Isaac was eight days old, ¹  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ² 

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ¹ 

She went on to say, ¹  “Who would ²  have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

But Sarah noticed ¹  the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. ² 

But Abraham lodged a complaint ¹  against Abimelech concerning a well ²  that Abimelech’s servants had seized. ³ 

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. ¹ 

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these ¹  seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

On the third day Abraham caught sight of ¹  the place in the distance.

“God will provide ¹  for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter ¹  his son.

(Now ¹  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife ¹  and said to the sons of Heth, ²