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GENESIS Heart of David Study Bible

The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I
know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from
me.”
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught
in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering instead of his son. Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Yireh [Yahweh
Makes Fruitful]. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be made
fruitful.”
The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, and said, “I
have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not
withheld your son, your only son, that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your
seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your
seed will possess the gate of his enemies. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be
blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to
Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milkah,
she also has borne children to your brother Nokor: Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother,
Kemuel the father of Aram, Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Yidlaph, and Bethuel.” Bethuel became
the father of Ribkah. These eight Milkah bore to Nokor, Abraham’s brother. His
concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Takash, and Ma`akah.
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Kayinan. Abraham came to
mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to
the children of Heth, saying, “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.”
The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, “Hear us, my lord. You are
a prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will
withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.” Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, even to the children of Heth. He talked with them, saying, “If it be your
mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron
the son of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Makpelah, which he has, which is in the
end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a
burying-place.”
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

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