Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go<n id="1" /> to the left, then I&#8217;ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I&#8217;ll go to the left.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Abram said to Sarai, &#8220;Since your<n id="1" /> servant is under your authority,<n id="2" /> do to her whatever you think best.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then Sarai treated Hagar<n id="4" /> harshly,<n id="5" /> so she ran away from Sarai.<n id="6" />p>

He said, &#8220;Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?&#8221; She replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m running away from<n id="1" /> my mistress, Sarai.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He will be a wild donkey<n id="1" /> of a man.p> <p class="poetry">He will be hostile to everyone,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and everyone will be hostile to him.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will live away from<n id="4" /> his brothers.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed<n id="1" /> as he said to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Can<n id="3" /> a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old?<n id="4" /> Can Sarah<n id="5" /> bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221;<n id="6" />

Abraham<n id="1" /> then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food<n id="2" /> before them. They ate while<n id="3" /> he was standing near them under a tree.p>

because we are about to destroy<n id="1" /> it. The outcry against this place<n id="2" /> is so great before the <sc>Lordsc> that he<n id="3" /> has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will grant this request too<n id="2" /> and will not overthrow<n id="3" /> the town you mentioned.

Then he said to them, &#8220;If you agree<n id="1" /> that I may bury my dead,<n id="2" /> then hear me out.<n id="3" /> Ask<n id="4" /> Ephron the son of Zohar

<p class="bodytext">After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

He prayed, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, God of my master Abraham, guide me today.<n id="1" /> Be faithful<n id="2" /> to my master Abraham.

He answered, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, before whom I have walked,<n id="1" /> will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father&#8217;s family.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah<n id="1" /> near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.

But Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How in the world<n id="1" /> did you find it so quickly,<n id="2" /> my son?&#8221; &#8220;Because the <sc>Lordsc> your God brought it to me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> he replied.<n id="4" />

Indeed,<n id="1" /> you had little before I arrived,<n id="2" /> but now your possessions have increased many times over.<n id="3" /> The <sc>Lordsc> has blessed you wherever I worked.<n id="4" /> But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

There he said to them, &#8220;I can tell that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me has changed,<n id="1" /> but the God of my father has been with me.

He left<n id="1" /> with all he owned. He quickly crossed<n id="2" /> the Euphrates River<n id="3" /> and headed for<n id="4" /> the hill country of Gilead.p>

He entrusted them to<n id="1" /> his servants, who divided them into herds.<n id="2" /> He told his servants, &#8220;Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.&#8221;

He instructed the servant leading the first herd,<n id="1" /> &#8220;When my brother Esau meets you and asks, &#8216;To whom do you belong?<n id="2" /> Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?&#8217;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near<n id="1" /> the city.