Genesis 11:26 Terah lived seventy years,
and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of
Lot. 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father
Terah was still alive. 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s
wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran,
who was also the father of Iscah. 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child. 31
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his
daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go
into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32 The days of
Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
12:1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your
relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. 2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great.
You will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse
him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed
through you.”
4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took
Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had
gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go
into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed
through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time,
Canaanites were in the land.
7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land
to your offspring.”[a]
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched
his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an
altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name. 9 Abram traveled, still going on
toward the South.
10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into
Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11
When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I
know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. 12 It will happen that when the
Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but
they will save you alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be
well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the
woman was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to
Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 He dealt well with
Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female
servants, female donkeys, and camels. 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 Pharaoh called Abram and
said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she
was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be
my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted
him away with his wife and all that he had.
Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children.
She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 Sarai said to Abram,
“See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It
may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of
Sarai. 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram
had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to
be his wife. 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she
had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 Sarai said to Abram,
“This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw
that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your
hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her,
and she fled from her face.
7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s
servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and
submit yourself under her hands.” 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will
greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a
son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man,
and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are
a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?” 14
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and
Bered.
15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his
son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar
bore Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 17:15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife,
you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. 16 I will bless
her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she
will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in
his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will
Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?” 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that
Ishmael might live before you!”
19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son.
You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an
everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have
heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will
multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I
will make him a great nation. 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac,
whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from
Abraham. 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and
all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s
house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had
said to him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin. 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the same day both Abraham and
Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. 27 All the men of his house, those born in
the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with
him.
Genesis 18:1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 He lifted up his eyes and
looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet
them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 3 and said, “My lord,
if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your
servant. 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree. 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh
your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your
servant.”
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly
prepare three seahs[a] of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” 7 Abraham ran
to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He
hurried to dress it. 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “There, in the tent.”
10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this
time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now
Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of
childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old
will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying,
‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh?
At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah
will have a son.”
15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she
was afraid.
He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
Genesis 20:1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of
the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of
Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the
night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom
you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will
you kill even a righteous nation? 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She,
even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity
of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the
integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from
sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her. 7 Now therefore,
restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you
will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and
all who are yours.”
8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. 9
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How
have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a
great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!” 10 Abimelech
said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God
is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’ 12 Besides, she is
indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother;
and she became my wife. 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house,
I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere
that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female
servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. 15
Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.” 16
To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver.
Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front
of all you are vindicated.”
17 Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife,
and his female servants, and they bore children. 18 For Yahweh had closed up
tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s
wife.
Genesis 21:1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh
did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called his
son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.[a] 4 Abraham
circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded
him. 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 7
She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For
I have borne him a son in his old age.”
8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast
on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast
out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with
my son, Isaac.”
11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account
of his son. 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight
because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you,
listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac. 13 I will
also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.” 14
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water,
and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and
sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15
The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the
shrubs. 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot
away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite
him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17 God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to
her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of
the boy where he is. 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand.
For I will make him a great nation.”
19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well.
Genesis 23:1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years.
This was the length of Sarah’s life. 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called
Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep
for her. 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of
Heth, saying, 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a
possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
sight.”
5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6
“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best
of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, to the children of Heth. 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree
that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he
has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me
among you as a possession for a burial place.”
10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of
Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of
Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11 “No, my lord,
hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the
presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But
if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from
me, and I will bury my dead there.”
14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 “My lord,
listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver[a]
between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred
shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were
in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded 18 to Abraham for a
possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at
the gate of his city. 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of
Canaan. 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the
children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.
Hebrews 11:11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to
conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him
faithful who had promised.
