He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.”

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

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

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor –

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.