Lexicon :: Strong's H85 - 'aḇrāhām

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”

And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”

Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? ”

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide[fn] the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham! ”

He replied, “Here I am.”

Abraham looked up and saw a ram[fn] caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide,[fn] so today it is said, “It will be provided[fn] on the LORD’s mountain.”

Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

When Abraham got up from beside his dead wife, he spoke to the Hethites:

The Hethites replied to Abraham,[fn]

Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.

Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing[fn] of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

Abraham bowed down to the people of the land

Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels[fn] of silver.

Abraham’s possession in the sight of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city.

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.

So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

“LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “make this happen for me today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah ​— ​daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor ​— ​coming with a jug on her shoulder.

and said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

“I am Abraham’s servant,” he said.

“Today when I came to the spring, I prayed: LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only you will make my journey successful!

“Then I knelt low, worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed to the ground before the LORD.

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[fn] and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

This is the length of Abraham’s life:[fn] 175 years.

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

These are the family records of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

“stay in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

“because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.”