¹ And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

² And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

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

⁴ And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had 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 suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age.

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

⁹ And when Sara had seen the son of Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac her son, she said to Abraham:

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

¹¹ Abraham took this grievously for his son.

¹² And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

¹³ But I will make the son also of the bondwoman 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. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

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 over against him a great way off as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.

¹⁷ And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.

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

¹⁹ And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

²⁰ And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.

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 me, and I heard not of it till to day.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.

²⁸ And Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.

²⁹ And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set apart?

³⁰ But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

³¹ Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.

³² And they made a league for the well of oath.

³³ And Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.

³⁴ And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.

¹ Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

² Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

³ May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

⁴ and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

⁵ Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

⁷ and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

⁸ Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.

⁹ Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

¹⁰ Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

¹¹ He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

¹² He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

¹³ Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

¹⁴ Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

¹⁵ Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

¹⁶ Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

¹⁷ He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

¹⁸ Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

¹⁹ He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

²⁰ Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

²¹ so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

²² then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."