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Heart of David Study Bible GENESIS

by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son.
But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land
in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
Abraham said, “I will swear.” Abraham complained to Abimelek because of a water
well, which Abimelek’s servants had violently taken away. Abimelek said, “I don’t know
who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today.”
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelek. Those two made a
covenant. Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. Abimelek said to
Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a
witness to me, that I have dug this well.” Therefore he called that place Beersheba,
because they both swore there. So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelek rose up
with Pikol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh,
the El Olam [Ageless Mighty One]. Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the
Philistines many days.

It happened after these things, that Elohim tested Abraham, and said to him,
“Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Yitshak, and go
into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains
which I will tell you of.”
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his
young men with him, and Yitshak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and
rose up, and went to the place of which Elohim had told him. On the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here
with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitshak his son. He took in his
hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. Yitshak spoke to Abraham his father,
and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am, my son.”
He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Abraham said, “Elohim will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.”
So they both went together. They came to the place which Elohim had told him of.
Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Yitshak his son, and laid
him on the altar, on the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son.

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