be found there? He said: I will not destroy 13 For we will destroy this place, because cry is grown loud before the Lord, who

for information. Note here, that two of the three angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who represented the Lord, remained with Abraham.

morrha, and the whole land o from the earth

and he saw the ashes rise up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt."

30 And Lot went up out of Segor and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Segor,) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

31 And the elder said to the younger:

Wis. 100 61-4W 106-Deut. 29. 23. 11. 8. Amos, 4. 11. Luke, 17.291VJude, l. 7.Isai 13. 19. Jer. 5040Ezek 16 407 Osee,§Luke 17. 32. Supra Sobe A. M.2107. CHAP. XIX. Ver. 22. Segor. That is, a little one. to the servants of God to proceed in stride, and not Ver. 26. And hus wife. As a standing memorial to look back to vice or its allurements. 15

9 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and Abraham made a great feast on the day and said to him : What hast thou done to ust of his weaning.

what have we offended thee in, that thou 9 And when Sara had seen the son of hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou son, she said to Abraham: oughtest not to do.

10 Cast out this bond-woman, and her son: for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.

11 Abraham took this grievously for his

11 Abraham answered: I thought with son. myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the 12 And God said to him: Let it not seem fear of God in this place: and they will kill grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy me for the sake of my wife: bond-woman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: ** for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly tity sister, * the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

13 And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: + Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I arm thy brother.

13 But I will make the son also of the bond-woman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away.ft And she departed, 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and wandered in the wilderness of Berand servants and handmaids, and gave to | sabee. Abraham : and restored to him Sara, his wife.

15 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresocver it shall please thee.

15 And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.

16 And she went her way, and sat orer16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have against him a great way off as far as a bow given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, can carry, for she said: I will not see the this shall serve thee for a covering of thy boy die and sitting over-against, she lifted eyes to all that are with thee, and whither- up her voice and wept.

wast taken.

soever thou shalt go: and remember thou 17 And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from 17 And when Abraham prayed, God healed | heaven, saying : What art thou doing, Agar ? Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, fear not: for God hath heard the voice of and they bore children: the boy, from the place wherein he is.

18 For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.|

4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, yas God hard commanded him,

5 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born, 6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.

7 And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave sek to, a son, whom she bore to hin in his old age.

18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand: for I will make him a great

nation..

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

22 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

23 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock : but according to the kindness, ‡‡ that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

24. And Abraham said: I will swear. 25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell 8 And the child grew and was weaned: me, and I heard not of it till to-day. Supra, 12. 13. and 11. 29.-† Infra, 21. 23. pra, 17. 10. Supra, 17. 19. and 18. 10.- Gal, 4. 23. Heb. 11. 18. 1. 14. M. 210s. Ante C. 1896- Supra, 20. 43. CAP. XXI. Ver. 3. Isaac. This word signifies laughter,"

Mat. 1. 2. Rom. 9. 7. Heb. A. M. 2113. Ante C., 1891-1/Su

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, laid the wood in order upon it; and when and gave them to Abimelech and both of he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on them made a league. the altar upon the pile of wood.

The faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to sacrifice his son Isaac. He is stayed 17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply from the act by an angel. Former promises are re-thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the newed to him. His brother Nachor's issue. sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall

AFTER these dings, God tempted possess the gates of their enemies. Abraham, and said to him: Abrahani, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. 2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into 19 Abraham returned to his young men, the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer and they went to Bersabee together, and he him for an holocaust upon one of the moun- dwelt there. tains which I will shew thee.

5 The children of Heth answered, saying: 6 My lord, hear us, thou art a price of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre, Totem vo boyzens I na eg

2 ‡ And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he bad : Put thy hand under my thigh, le had,

3 That may make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dweller 4 But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaack of zond my

7 Abraham rose up, and howed down to the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth top sadh duy logng, gir burse tire 18 And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and in-5 The servant answered: If the woman tercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. will not come with me into this land, must I 9 That he may give me the double cave, bring thy son back again to the place, from which he bath in the end of his field; for as whence thou camest out 2 mondo co much money as it is worth he shall give it me 6 And Abraham said: Beware thou never! before you, for a possession of a burying place. bring my son back again thither. 10 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the 7 The Lord God of Heaven, who took children of Heth. And Ephron made answer me out of my father's house, and out of my to Abraham in the hearing of all that went native country, who spoke to me, and swore in at the gate of the city, saying Hotel ca to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou land: he will send his Angel before thee, rather hearken to what I say: The field I and thou shalt take from thence a wife for deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, my son.¶t on 1 in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy deada vit got wish ogls

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98 But if the woman will not follow thee. thou shalt not be bound by the oath; only! 12 Abraham bowed down before the peo bring not my son back thither again. ple of the land,og 'notegu yn soi husq9The servant therefore put his hand un- ! - 13 And he spoke to Ephron, in the pre-der the thigh of Abraham his lord, and swore: sence of the people; beseech thee to to him upon this word en duur Tog hear me: I will give money for the field: 10 And he took ten camels of his master's: take it, and so I will bury my dead in it herd, and departed, carrying something of 514› And Ephron answered 1918 woh ball his goods with him, and he set forward 15 My lord, hear me. The ground which and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of: thon desirest, is worth four hundred/sicles Nachon tient out N of silver: this is the price between me and thee; but what is this? bury thy dead.

11 And when he had made the camels lie: down without the town near a well of water in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said:

-16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of 12 O Lord the God of my master Abra Heth, four hundred sicles of silver of com- ham, meet me to-day, I beseech thee, and mon current money, rod nolol moda „zoi shrew kindness to my mastér Abraham.ad 17 And the field that before was Ephron's, 13 Behold I stand nighthe spring of wherein was the double caved looking to water, and the daughters of the inhabitants i wards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all of this city will come out to draw water. the trees thereof in all its limits roundabout, 14 Now, therefore, the maid to whom v18 Was made sure to Abraham for a pos- shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may: session, in the sight of the children of Heth, drinks and she shall answer, Drink, and I and of all that went in at the gate of his city will give thy camels drink also: let it be the 19 And so Abraham buried Sara his wife, same whom thou hast provided for thy serin a double cave of the field, that looked to- vant Isaac: and by this I shall understand, warils * Mambre, this is Hebron in the land that thou hast shewn kindness to my master. of Channan.o bind tapir old or do you i bedb15 He had not yet ended these words 20 And the field was made sure to Abra- within himself, and behold Rebecca catue ham, and the cave that was in it, for a pos-out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha session to bury in, by the children of Heth. wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:** ! U

CHAP. XXIV. Abraham's bèrrent, sent by him into Mesopotamia, bringeth from thence Rebecca, who is married to Isaac. OW and advanced age and the Lord had blessed him

Now Abraham was old

in all things, roba od bimor

Laule to dozegy dual Dan

* Infri 3527140 years A. M. 2149. Ante C 1856 Infra, 47, 29

16 An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to mán: and

she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher and was coming back.

117 And the servant ran to meet her, and

Supra, 12. 5 and 18. 15. and 15. 8.-¶ lufra, 26 ** Exod. 11. 16. Infra, 29, S. ག་

CHAP. XXITE Ver.4 Boured down to the expressed by a bowing down of the body. peofle ofte. Admavit, literally adored. But this word CHAP. XXIV. "Ver. 7. He will send his angel behere as well as in many other places in the fore thee This shows that the Hebrews believed that Latine scripturess is used to signify only an God gave them guardian Angels (for their protec teriorm bonour and reverence paid, to mention,iy 12 69we sur - bem ratesin çi ja

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