So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

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

Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

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

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

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.