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Ch. XXII. For God hath heard the voice of the lad from the place where he is. Arise and take up the boy and support him with thy hand; for I will make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of spring water. So she went and filled the vessel with water and gave the boy drink. And God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and his mother took for him a wife from Pharan of Egypt.

Now it happened at that time that Abimelech, accompanied with Ochozath his chamberlain and Phichol the general of his army, spoke to Abraham saying, God is with thee in all that thou dost. Now therefore swear to me by God, that thou wilt not injure me nor my seed nor my name; but that according to the kindness with which I have treated thee, thou wilt deal with me and this land in which thou hast sojourned. And Abraham said, I swear. Then Abraham expostulated with Abimelech touching the wells of water which the servants of Abimelech had taken. And Abimelech said to him, I did not know that any one had done this to thee. Thou didst not tell me, nor did I hear of it till this day. Then Abraham took sheep oxen and gave them to Abimelech; and they both made a covenant. Now Abraham had set seven ewe lambs by themselves; and Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? Upon which Abraham said, These seven ewe lambs thou will take of me that they may be a witness for me, that I digged this well. For this cause he called the name of that place, Well of the Oath, because both of them swore there and made a covenant at Well of the Oath. Then arose Abimelech and Ochozath his chamberlain and Phichol the general of his army and returned to the land of the Philistines; and Abraham planted a field at Well of the Oath and there invoked the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the philistines.

And it came to pass after these things that God tried Abraham and said to him, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am. And he said, Take thy son, they dear son whom thou hast loved - Isaak; and go to the hilly country and offer him up there for a whole homage offering on one of the hills which I