I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac.

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking.

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.