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Abraham giveth proof of his faith.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and aw the place afar off.

And Abraham aid unto his young men, Abide ye here with the as; and I and the lad will go yonder and worhip, and come again to you.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Iaac his on; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

And Iaac pake unto Abraham his father, and aid, My father: and he aid, † Here am I, my on. And he aid, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the ‖ lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham aid, My on, God will provide himelf a lamb for a burnt offering: o they went both of them together.

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Iaac his on, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And Abraham tretched forth his hand, and took the knife to lay his on.

¶ And the angel of the called unto him out of heaven, and aid, Abraham, Abraham: and he aid, Here am I.

And he aid, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearet God, eeing thou hat not withheld thy on, thine only on from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the tead of his on.

And Abraham called the name of that place ‖ Jehovah-jireh: as it is aid to this day, In the mount of the it hall be een.

¶ And the angel of the called unto Abraham out of heaven the econd time,

And aid, By myelf have I worn, aith the, for becaue thou hat done this thing, and hat not withheld thy on, thine only on:

That in bleing I will bles thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy eed as the tars of the heaven, and as the and which is upon the ea † hore; and thy eed hall poes the gate of his enemies;

And in thy eed hall all the nations of the earth be bleed; becaue thou hat obeyed my voice.

So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they roe up and went together to Beer-heba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-heba.

¶ And it came to pas after thee things, that it was told Abraham, aying, Behold, Milcah, he hath alo born children unto thy brother Nahor;

Huz his firtborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

And Cheed, and Hazo, and Pildah, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: thee eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

And his concubine, whoe name was Reumah, he bare alo Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahah, and Maachah.

1 The age and death of Sarah. 3 The purchae of Machpelah, 19 where Sarah was buried.

Sarah was an hundred and even and twenty years old: thee were the years of the life of Sarah.

And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the ame is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

¶ And Abraham tood up from before his dead, and pake unto the ons of Heth, aying,

I am a tranger and a ojourner with you: give me a poeion of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my ight.

And the children of Heth anwered Abraham, aying unto him,

Hear us, my lord: thou art † a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our epulchres bury thy dead; none of us hall withhold from thee his epulchre, but that thou mayet bury thy dead.

And Abraham tood up, and bowed himelf to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

And he communed with them, aying, If it be your mind that I hould bury my dead out of my ight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the on of Zohar,

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for † as much money as it is worth he hall give it me for a poeion of a buryingplace amongt you.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite anwered Abraham in the † audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, aying,

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the preence of the