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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.
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.”

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