foreign [Music] [Music] Terror became the father of Abram nehor and Heron and Heron became the father of lot his father Tyra was still alive Heron died in Ur of the Chaldeans in the land of his birth Abram and neho are both married the name of Abram's wife was Sarah and the name of nehor's wife was milka she was the daughter of Haron the father of both milka and iska now Sarai was Barren she had no children [Music] Tira took his son Abram his grandson lot son of Aaron and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of his son Abram and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan but when they came to Haddon they settled there Tara lived 205 years and he died in heaven the Lord had said to Abram leave your country your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you I will make your name great and you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse and all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you so Abram left as the Lord had told him and lot went with him Abram was 75 years old when he set out from Erin he took his wife Sarai his nephew lot all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in heaven and they set out for the land of Canaan and they arrived there Abram traveled through the land as far as the sight of the great tree of Mora at shechem at that time the Canaanites were in the land the Lord appeared to Abram and said to your Offspring I will give this land so he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him from there he went on toward the Hills East of Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and I on the East there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev now there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe as he was about to enter Egypt he said to his wife said I I know what a beautiful woman you are when the Egyptians see you they will say this is his wife then they will kill me but will let you live say you were my sister so that I will be treated well for your sake my life will be spared because of you when Abram came to Egypt Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman and when Pharaoh's officials saw her they praised her to pharaoh and she was taken into his Palace he treated Abram well for her sake and Abram a quiet sheep and cattle male and female donkeys men servants and Maid servants and camels but the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh in his household because of Abram's wife Sarai so Pharaoh summoned Abram what have you done to me why didn't you tell me she was your wife why did you say she is my sister so that I took her to be my wife now then here is your wife take her and go then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men and they sent him on his way with his wife and everything he had so Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev with his wife and everything he had and lot went with him Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold from the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel to the place between Bethel and I where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar there Abram called on the name of the Lord now lot who was moving about with Abram also had flocks and herds and Tents but the land could not support them while they stayed together for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together and quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of lot the Canaanites and parasites were also living in the land at that time so Abram said to lot let's not have any quarreling between you and me or between your herdsmen and mine for we are brothers is not the whole land before you let's part company if you go to the left I'll go to the right if you go to the right I'll go to the left lot looked up and saw that the whole plane of the Jordan was well watered like the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt towards zoa this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah solat chose for himself the whole plane of the Jordan and set out toward the east the two men parted company Abram lived in the land of Canaan while lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom now the men of Sodom were Wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord the Lord said to Abram after lot had parted from him lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south east and west all the land that you see I will give to you in your Offspring forever I will make your Offspring like the dust of the earth so that if anyone could count the dust then your Offspring could be counted go walk through the length and breadth of the land before I am giving it to you so Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of mammary at hebrim where he built an altar to the Lord at this time am Rafael king of China dariak King of Elisa kedoleama king of Elam and title king of goyam went to war against beera king of Sodom bisha king of Gomorrah shinab king of adma shameeba king of zaboyam and the king of Bela that is zoa all these latter Kings joined forces in the Valley of sidom the salt sea for 12 years they had been subject to catalyama but in the 13th year they rebelled in the 14th year ketelemer and the King's allied with him went out and defeated the refereites in ashterath carneum the zuzites in ham the E mites in Shaver karyatham and the horites in the Hill Country of SIA as far as El Perron near the desert then they turned back and went to en mishpat that is kadish and they conquered the whole territory of the amalekites as well as the amorites who were living in hazason teman then the king of Sodom the king of Gomorrah the king of adma the kingdoms of boyam and the king of Bela that is zoa marched out and Drew up their battle lines in the valley of sidom against Elam title king of goyum and Rafael king of China and ariac king of elazar Four Kings against five now the valley of siddon was full of tar pits and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the Hills the Four Kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food then they went away they also carried off Abram's nephew lot and his possessions Sid she was living in Sodom one who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew Abram was living near the great trees of mamre the Amorite a brother of eshkol and an all of whom were allied with Abram when Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in Pursuit as far as Dan during the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them pursuing them as far as Hobart north of Damascus he recovered all the goods and brought back his relative lot in his possessions together with the women and the other people [Music] after Abram returned from defeating and the Kings allied with him the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the valley of shaver that is the King's Valley then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out Bread and Wine he was Priest of God most high and he blessed Abram saying Blessed Be Abram by God most high creator of Heaven and Earth and blessed be God most high who delivered your enemies into your hand then Abram gave him a tenth of everything the king of Sodom said to Abram give me the people and keep the goods for yourself but Abram said to the king of Sodom I have raised my hand to the Lord God most high creator of Heaven and Earth and have taken an oath that I will accept nothing belonging to you not even a thread or the thong of a sandal so that you will never be able to say I made Abram rich I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me to a inner Esco in memory let them have their share after this the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision do not be afraid Abram I am your Shield your very great reward oh Sovereign Lord what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Damascus you have given me no children so a servant in my household will be my heir then the word of the Lord came to him this man will not be your Heir but a son coming from your own body will be your heir he took him outside and said look up at the heavens and count the Stars if indeed you can count them so shall your Offspring be Abram believed the Lord and He credited it to him as righteousness he also said to him I am the Lord who brought you out of the war of the Chaldeans to give you this land you take possession of it Sovereign Lord how can I know that I will gain possession of it bring me a heifer a goat and a ram each three years old along with a dove and a young pigeon Abram brought all these to him cut them in two and arrange the haves opposite each other the birds however he did not cut in half then Birds of Prey came down on the carcasses but Abram drove them away as the sun was setting Abram fell into a deep sleep and a thick and Dreadful Darkness came over him then the Lord said to him know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and they will be enslaved and mistreated 400 years but I will punish the nation they serve as slaves and afterward they will come out with great possessions you however will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age in the fourth generation your descendants will come back here for the sin of the amorites has not yet reached its full measure [Music] when the sun had set in darkness had fallen a smoking fire Puck with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said to your descendants I give this land from the river of Egypt to the Great River the Euphrates the land of the Canaanites kennezytes cadmonites airtights parasites refiites amorites Canaanites gurgeshites and jebusites now Sarai Abram's wife had borne him no children but she had an Egyptian maid servant named Hagar so she said to Abram the Lord has kept me from having children go sleep with my maidservant perhaps I can build a family through her Abram agreed to what Sarai said so after Abram had been living in Canaan 10 years Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife he slept with Hagar and she conceived when she knew she was pregnant she began to despise her mistress then Sarah said to Abram you are responsible for the wrong I'm suffering I put my servant in your arms and now that she knows she is pregnant she despises me may the lord judge between you and me your servant is in your hands do with her whatever you think best then Sarah mistreated Hagar so she fled from her the angel of the Lord found Hagar near the spring in the desert it was the spring that is beside the road to shore and he said Hagar servant of Sarai where have you come from and where are you going running away from my mistress Sarai God told her go back to your mistress and submit to her I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count you are now with child and you will have a son you shall name him Ishmael for the Lord has heard of your misery he will be a wild donkey of a man his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers she gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her who are the God who sees me I have now seen the one who sees me that is why the well was called Bila High Roy it is still there between kadish and period so Hagar bore Abram a son and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had born Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael when Abram was 99 years old the Lord appeared to him and said I am God Almighty walk before me and be blameless I will confirm my Covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers Abram fell face down and God said to him as for me this is my Covenant with you you will be the father of many nations no longer will you be called Abram your name will be Abraham for I have made you a father of many nations I will make you very fruitful I will make nations of you and Kings will come from you I will establish my Covenant as an Everlasting Covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come to be your God and the god of your descendants after you the whole land of Canaan where you are now an alien I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you and I will be their God as for you you must keep my Covenant you and your descendants after you for the generations to come this is my Covenant with you and your descendants after you the Covenant you are to keep every meal among you shall be circumcised you are to undergo circumcision and it will be the sign of the Covenant between me and you for the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner those who are not your Offspring whether born in your household or bought with your money they must be circumcised my Covenant in your flesh is to be an Everlasting Covenant any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised In the Flesh will be cut off from his people he has broken my Covenant as for Sarah your wife you are no longer to call her Sarai her name will be Sarah I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her I will bless her so that she will be the mother of Nations Kings of peoples will come from her Abraham fell face down he laughed and said to himself will a son be born to a man a hundred years old Sarah bear a child at the age of 90. and Abraham said to God if only Ishmael might live under your blessing yes but your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will call him Isaac I will establish my Covenant with him as an Everlasting Covenant for his descendants after him and as for Ishmael I have heard you I will surely bless him I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers he will be the father of 12 rulers and I will make him into a great nation but my Covenant I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year when he had finished speaking with Abraham God went up from him on that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money every male in his household and circumcised them as God told him Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised and his son Ishmael was 13. Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day and every male in Abraham's household including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner were circumcised with him the Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of mammary while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent In the Heat of the day Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby when he saw them he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground he said if I have found favor in your eyes my Lord Do not pass your servant by that little water be brought and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree let me get you something to eat so you can be refreshed and then go on your way now that you have come to your servant very well do as you say so Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah quick get three seas of flying flour and knead it and bake some bread then he ran to the herd and selected a choice tend to calf and gave it to a servant who hurried to prepare it he then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared and set these before them while they ate he stood near them under a tree where is your wife Sarah [Music] there in the tent then the Lord said I will surely return to you about this time next year and Sarah your wife will have a son now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent which was behind him Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years Sarah was past the age of childbearing so Sarah laughed to herself as she thought [Music] out and my master is old will I now have this pleasure then the Lord said to Abraham why did Sarah laugh and say will I really have a child now that I am old is anything too hard for the Lord I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son Shara was afraid so she lied and said I did not laugh yes you did laugh when the men got up to leave they looked down towards Sodom and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way [Music] then the Lord said shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation and All Nations on Earth will be blessed through him for I have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sins so Grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me if not I will know the men turned away and went towards Sodom but Abraham remained standing before the Lord then Abraham approached him and said will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked what if there are 50 righteous people in the city will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sick of the 50 righteous people in it far be it from you to do such a thing to kill the righteous with the wicked treating the righteous and the wicked alike far be it from you well not the judge of all the Earth do right if I find 50 righteous people in the city of Sodom I will spare the whole place for their sake now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord though I am nothing but Dustin ashes what if the number of the righteous is five less than 50 will you destroy the whole city because of five people if I find 45 there I will not destroy it what if only 40 are found there for the sake of forty I will not do it may the Lord not be angry but let me speak what if only 30 can be found there I will not do it if I find 30 there now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord what if only 20 can be found there for the sake of 20 I will not destroy it may the Lord not be angry but let me speak just once more what if only ten can be found there for the sake of ten I will not destroy it when the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham he left and Abraham returned home the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening and lot was sitting in the Gateway of the city when he saw them he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground my lords please turn aside to your servant's house you can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning no we will spend the night in the Square but he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house he prepared a meal for them baking bread without yeast and they ate before they had gone to bed all the men from every part of the city of Sodom both young and old surrounded the house they called to lot where are the men who came to you tonight bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them hot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said no my friends don't do this week this week let me bring them out to you and you can do what you like with them but don't do anything to these men for they have come under the protection of my roof way this fellow came here as an alien and now he wants to play the judge we'll treat you worse than them they kept bringing pressure on lot and move forward to break down the door but the men inside reached out and pulled a lot back into the house and shut the door then they struck the men who were at the door of the house young and old with blindness so that they could not find the door the two men said to lot do you have anyone else here sons-in-laws Sons or daughters or anyone else in the city Who belongs to you get them out of here because we are going to destroy this place the outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it Charlotte went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who have pledged to marry his daughters he said hurry and get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city but his sons-in-law thought he was joking with the coming of dawn the Angels urged lot saying hurry take your wife and your two daughters who are here or you will be swept away when the city is punished when he hesitated the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city for the Lord was merciful to them as soon as they had brought them out one of them said Flee for your lives don't look back and don't stop anywhere in the plane [Music] Lords please your servant has found favor in your eyes and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life but I can't flee to the mountains This Disaster will overtake me and I'll die look here is a town near enough to run to and it is small let me flee to it it is very small isn't it then my life will be spared very well I will grant this request too I will not overthrow the town you speak of but flee there quickly because I cannot do anything until you reach it that is why the town was called zoa by the time lot reached zoa the sun had risen over the land then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens thus he overthrew those cities in the entire plain including all those living in the cities and also the vegetation in the land wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord he looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah to all the land of the plain and he saw dense smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace so when God destroyed the cities of the plain he remembered Abraham and he brought lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where lot had lived brought his left sower and settled in the mountains for he was afraid to stay in zoha he and his two daughters lived in a cave one day the older daughter said to the younger our father is old and there is no man around here to lie with us as is the custom all over the Earth let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father that night they got their father to drink wine and the older daughter went in and lay with him he was not aware of it when she'd lay down or when she got up the next day the older daughter said to the younger last night I Lay With My Father let's get him to drink wine again tonight and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father so they got their father to drink wine that night also and the younger daughter went and lay with him again he was not aware of it when she'd lay down or when she got up so both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father the older daughter had a son and she named him Moab he is the father of the moabites of today a younger daughter also had a son and she named him Ben Ami he is the father of the ammonites of today now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Nagel and lived between cadus and Shore for a while he stayed in Gira and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah she is my sister Vana bimalek king of Gira sent for Sarah and took her but God came to abimelech in a dream one night and said to him you are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken she is a married woman now abimelech had not gone near her so he said Lord will you destroy an innocent Nation did he not say to me she is my sister and didn't she also say he is my brother I have done this for the clear conscience and Clean Hands then God said to him in the dream yes I know you did this with a clear conscience so I have kept you from sinning against me that is why I did not let you touch her now return the man's wife or he is a prophet and he will pray for you and you will live but if you do not return her you may be sure that you and all yours will die early the next morning abimelech summoned all his officials and when he told them all that had happened they were very much afraid then abimelech called Abraham in and said what have you done to us how have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom you have done things to mean that should not be done what was your reason for doing this I said to myself there is surely no fear of God in this place and they will kill me because of my wife besides she really is my sister the daughter of my father though not of my mother and she became my wife and when God had me Wander from my father's household I said to her this is how you can show your love to me everywhere we go say of me he is my brother then abimelech brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and he returned Sarah his wife to him and abimelech said my land is before you live wherever you like to Sarah he said I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver this is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you you are completely Vindicated Abraham prayed to God and God healed abimelech his wife and his slave girls so they could have children again for the Lord had closed up every womb in abimelech's household because of Abraham's wife Sarah now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age at the very time God had promised him Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah boyin the son Isaac was eight days old Abraham circumcised him as God commanded him Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him Sarah said [Music] and everyone who cares about this will laugh with me who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children yet I have borne him a son in his old age the child grew and was weaned and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast but Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking and she said to Abraham get rid of that slave woman and her son for that slave woman son will never share in The Inheritance with my son Isaac the matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son but God said to him do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant listen to whatever Sarah tells you because it is through Isaac that your Offspring will be reckoned I will make the son of a maidservant into a nation also because he is your offspring early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar he set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy she went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba when the water in the skin was gone she put the boy under one of the bushes then she went off sat down nearby about a bow shut away for she thought watch the boy die and as she sat there nearby she began to sob God heard the boy crying and the angel of God Called to Hagar from heaven and said to her what is the matter Hagar do not be afraid God has heard the boy crying as he lies there lift the boy up and take him by the hand for I will make him into a great nation then God opened her eyes and she sought a well of water so she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink God was with the boy as he grew up he lived in the desert and became an Archer while he was living in the desert of perin his mother got a wife for him from Egypt at that time abimelech and ficol the commander of his forces said to Abraham God is with you in everything you do now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants show to me and the country where you are living as an alien the same kindness I have shown to you I swear it then Abraham complained to abimelech about a well of water that abimelech servants had seized but abimelech said I don't know who has done this you did not tell me and I heard about it only today so Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to abimelech and the two men made a treaty Abraham set apart seven new Lambs from the flock and abimelech asked Abraham what is the meaning of these seven you Lambs you have set apart by themselves except these seven Lambs from my hand is a witness that I dug this well so that place was called Beersheba because the two men swore to know there after the treaty had been made at Beersheba abimelech and fikal the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and there he called upon the name of the Lord the Eternal God and Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time some time later God tested Abraham he said to him Abraham here I am take your son your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the region of Mariah sacrifice him there is a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey he took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac when he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering he set out for the place God had told him about on the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance he said to his servants stay here with a donkey while I and the boy go over there we will worship then we will come back to you Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac and he himself carried the fire and the knife as the two of them went on together Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham father yes my son fire and water here but where is the land for the burnt offering God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering my son and the two of them went on together when they reached the place God had told him about Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son but the angel of the Lord called out to him from Heaven Abraham Abraham here I am do not lay a hand on the boy now I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from me your son your only son Abraham looked up and there in a Thicket he saw the ram caught by its horns he went over and took the RAM and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son so Abraham called that place the Lord will provide and to this day it is said on the mountain of the Lord it will be provided the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from Heaven a second time and said I swear by myself declares the Lord that because you have done this and have not withheld your son your only son I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies and through your Offspring All Nations on Earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me thank you then Abraham returned to his servants and they set off together for Beersheba and Abraham stayed in Beersheba sometime later Abraham was told nilka is also a mother she has borne Sons to your brother nahor as the firstborn Buzz his brother kimuel the father of Aaron he said Hazel and with you Sewell became the father of Rebecca milka bore these eight Sons to Abraham's brother nehor his concubine whose name was rumor also had Sons Tiba gayam Tash and mayaka Sarah lived to be 127 years old she died at kyrieth Abba that is Hebron in the land of Canaan and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her then Abraham Rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites he said I am an alien and a stranger among you sold me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead the Hittites replied to Abraham sir listen to us you are a mighty Prince Among Us bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs none of us will refuse you his tomb for bearing your dead then Abraham Rose and bowed down before the people of the land the Hittites he said to them if you are willing to let me bury my dad then listen to me and intercede with Ephraim son of Zohar on my behalf so he will sell me the cave of mcpila which belongs to him and is at the end of his field ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you from the hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his City no my Lord listen to me I give you the field and I give you the cave that is in it I give it to you in the presence of my people bury your dead again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land and he said to Ephraim in their hearing listen to me if you will I will pay the price of the field accept it from me so I can bury my dead there listen to me my Lord the land is worth 400 shekels of silver but what is that between me and you Barry you're dead Abraham agreed to ephraim's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites 400 shekels of silver according to the weight current among the merchants so ephraim's field in macpillar near mamry both the field and the cave in it and all the trees within the borders of the field was deeded to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of machpila near mamre which is at hebrum in the land of Canaan so the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site Abraham was now old and well advanced in years and the Lord had blessed him in every way he said to the chief servant in his household the one in charge of all that he had put your hand under my thigh I want you to swear by the Lord the god of Heaven and the god of Earth that you will not get away for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac the servant asked him what if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land shall I then take your son back to the country you came from make sure that you do not take my son back there the Lord the god of Heaven who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath saying to your Offspring I will give this land he will send his Angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there if the woman is unwilling to come back with you then you will be released from this oath of mine only do not take my son back there so the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and sword an oath to him concerning this matter then the servant took 10 of his Masters camels and left taking with him all kinds of good things from his master he set out for Aram nehrayam and made his way to the town of nehor he had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town it was toward evening the time the women go out to draw water then he prayed O Lord God of my master Abraham give me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham see I am standing beside this spring and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water may it be that when I say to a girl please let down your jar that I may have a drink and she says drink and I'll Water your camels too let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac by this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master before he had finished praying Rebecca came out with a jaw on her shoulder she was the daughter of bethuel son of milka who was the wife of Abraham's brother nehor the girl was very beautiful a virgin no man had ever leaned with her she went down to the spring fill the jaw and came up again the servant hurried to meet her and said a little water from your jar drink my Lord and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink after she had given him a drink she said I'll draw water for your camels too until they have been so she quickly emptied her jaw into the trough ran back to the well to draw more water and Drew enough for all his camels without saying a word the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful when the camels had finished drinking the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beaker and two gold bracelets weighing 10 shekels then he asked whose daughter are you please tell me is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night I am the daughter of bethul the son that milka bore to nehor we have plenty of straw and fodder as well as room for you to spend the night then the man bowed down and worshiped the Lord saying praise be to the Lord the god of my master Abraham who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master as for me the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my Master's relatives the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things now Rebecca had a brother named Laban and he hurried out to the man at the spring as soon as he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms and it heard Rebecca tell what the man said to her he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring [Music] come you who are blessed by the Lord why are you standing out here I have prepared the house and a place for the camels Joe the man went to the house and the camels were unloaded straw and father were brought for the camels and water for him and his men to wash their feet then food was set before him but he said I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say then tell us I am Abraham's servant the Lord has blessed my master abundantly and he has become wealthy he has given him sheep and cattle silver and gold men's servants and maidservants and camels and donkeys my Master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age and he has given him everything he owns and my master made me swear an oath and said you must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live but go to my father's family and to my own Clan and get away from my son then I asked my master what if the woman will not come back with me he replied the Lord before whom I have walked will send his angel with you and make your journey a success so that you can get away for my son from my own Clan and from my father's family then when you go to my clan you will be released from my oath even if they refuse to give her to you you will be released from my oath when I came to the spring today I said oh Lord God of my master Abraham if you will please Grant success to the journey on which I have come see I am standing beside this spring if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her please let me drink a little water from your jar and if she says to me drink and I'll draw water for your camels too let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master's son before I finished praying in my heart Rebecca came out with her jar on her shoulder she went down through the spring and Drew water and I said to her please give me a drink she quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said drink and I'll Water your camels too so I drank and she watered the camels also I asked her whose daughter are you she said the daughter of Bethel son of nehor whom milka bore to him then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms and I bowed down and worshiped the Lord I praise the Lord the god of my master Abraham who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my Master's brother for his son now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master tell me and if not tell me so I may know which way to turn Laban and bethuel answered this is from the Lord we can say nothing to you one way or the other here is Rebecca take her and go and let her become the wife of your master's son as the Lord has directed when Abraham's Sherman heard what they said he bowed down to the ground before the Lord then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebecca he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there when they got up the next morning he said send me on my way to my master but her brother and her mother replied let the girl remain with us 10 days or so then you may go you not detain me now that the Lord has granted success to my journey send me on my way so I may go to my master let's call the girl and ask her about it so they called Rebecca and asked her will you go with this man I will go so they sent their sister Rebecca on her way along with her nurse in Abraham's servant and his men and they blessed Rebecca and said to her our sister may you increase to thousands upon thousands may your Offspring possess the gates of their enemies then Rebecca and her Mage got ready and mounted their camels and went back with the man so the servant took Rebecca and left now Isaac had come from bill hyruy for he was living in the Negev he went out to the field one evening to meditate and as he looked up he saw camels approaching Rebecca also looked up and saw Isaac she got down from her camel and asked the servant [Music] is my master so she took her veil and covered herself then the servant told Isaac all he had done Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and he married Rebecca so she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death Abraham took another wife whose name was Katura she bought him zimran Medan Midian ishback and sure dakshan was the father of Sheba and Eden the descendants of dedon were the asherites the letter sites and the lamites the sons of Midian were IFA IFA haynik Abida and eldaya all these were descendants of Katura Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac but while he was still living He gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the East all together Abraham lived 175 years then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age an old man and full of years and he was gathered to his people his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of mcpila near mamri in the field of Ephraim son of zoa the hittite the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites there Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah after Abraham's death God blessed his son Isaac who then lived nearby this is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael whom Sarah's maidservant Hagar the Egyptian born to Abraham these are the names of the sons of Ishmael listed in the order of their birth nevaeus the firstborn of Ishmael keeda Advil mibsam mishma Duma Massac hey Dad Timur Jita nayfish and kedava these were the sons of Ishmael and these are the names of the 12 tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps all together Ishmael lived 137 years he breathed his last and died and he was gathered to his people his descendants settled in the area from havilah to shore near the border of Egypt as you go toward ashra and they lived in hostility toward all their brothers this is the account of Abraham's son Isaac Abraham became the father of Isaac and Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca daughter of bethuel the aramian and sister of labum the adamian Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was Barren the Lord answered his prayer and his wife Rebecca became pregnant the babies jostled each other within her and she said why is this happening to me so she went to inquire of the Lord the Lord said to her two nations are in your womb and two peoples from within you will be separated one people will be stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger when the time came for her to give birth there were twin boys in her womb the first to come out was red and his whole body was like a hairy garment so they named him Esau after this his brother came out with his hand grasping he saw his eel so he was named Jacob Isaac was 60 years old when Rebecca gave birth to them the boys grew up and Esau became a skillful Hunter a man of the Open Country while Jacob was a quiet man staying among the tents Isaac who had a taste for Wild game loved Esau but Rebecca loved Jacob once when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from the Open Country famished he said to Jacob quick let me have some of that red stew I'm famished that is why he was also called Edom Jacob replied first sell me your Birthright Birthright to me swear to me first so he swore an oath to him selling his Birthright to Jacob then Jacob gave ESO some bread and some lentils stew he ate and drank and then got up and left so ESO despised his Birthright [Music] thank you thank you