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vnder a certaine tree. 16 Then she went and sate ham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who an-
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her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe swered, Here am I. And he said, Take nowe thine
shoote: for she said, I will not see the death onely sonne Izhak whom thou louest, and get
of the child. and she sate downe ouer against thee vnto the land of Moriah, and offer him there
him, and lift vp her voyce and wept. 17 Then for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines,
God heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel which I will shewe thee. 3 Then Abraham rose
of God called to Hagar from heauen, and said vp early in the morning, and sadled his asse, and
vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not, for tooke two of his seruants with him, and Izhak his
God hath heard the voyce of the childe where he sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offering, and
is. 18 Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him rose vp and went to the place, which God had
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in thine hand: for I will make of him a great tolde him. Then the third day Abraham lift vp
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people. 19 And God opened her eyes, and she his eyes, and sawe the place afarre off, And said
sawe a well of water. so she went and filled vnto his seruants, Abide you here with the asse:
the bottell with water, and gaue the boy drinke. for I and the childe will go yonder and worship,
20 So God was with the childe, and he grewe and come againe vnto you. 6 Then Abraham
and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer. tooke the wood of the burnt offering, and layed
21 And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and it vpon Izhak his sonne, and he tooke the fire
his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of in his hand, and the knife: and they went both
Egypt. 22 And at that same time Abimelech and together. 7 Then spake Izhak vnto Abraham his
Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, father, and said, My father. And he answered,
saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest. Here am I, my sonne. And he said, Behold the fire
23 Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, and the wood, but where is the lambe for ye burnt
that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor offring? 8 Then Abraham answered, My sonne,
my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, God will prouide him a lambe for a burnt offering:
and with the countrey, where thou hast bene so they went both together. 9 And when they
a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I came to the place which God had shewed him,
haue shewed thee. 24 Then Abraham said, I will Abraham builded an altar there, and couched ye
sweare. 25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for wood, and bound Izhak his sonne and laid him
a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had on the altar vpon the wood. 10 And Abraham
violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech saide, I
knowe not who hath done this thing: also thou stretching forth his hand, tooke the knife to kill
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toldest me not, neither heard I of it but this day. his sonne. But the Angel of the Lord called vnto
him from heauen, saying, Abraham, Abraham.
27 Then Abraham tooke sheepe and beeues, and And he answered, Here am I. 12 Then he said,
gaue them vnto Abimelech: and they two made Lay not thine hand vpon the childe, neither doe
a couenant. 28 And Abraham set seuen lambes of any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou
the flocke by themselues. 29 Then Abimelech said fearest God, seeing for my sake thou hast not
vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, 13
which thou hast set by themselues? 30 And he an- spared thine onely sonne. And Abraham lifting
swered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a
these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes vnto ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a
me, that I haue digged this well. 31 Wherefore bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme,
the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the
both sware. 32 Thus made they a couenant at steade of his sonne. 14 And Abraham called the
Beer-sheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol name of that place, Iehouah-ijreh. as it is said
his chiefe captaine rose vp, and turned againe this day, In the mount will the Lord be seene.
vnto the land of the Philistims. 33 And Abraham 15 And the Angel of the Lord cryed vnto Abraham
planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there from heauen the second time, 16 And saide, By my
on the Name of ye Lord, the euerlasting God. selfe haue I sworne (saith ye Lord) because thou
34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine
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land a long season. onely sonne, Therefore will I surely blesse thee,
and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres
22 of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon

1 And after these things God did proue Abra- the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the