our Lord hath heard the voice of the child from the place which he is now in.  Arise and take the child and hold him by the hand, for I shall make him to increase into much people.  God opened her eyes and she saw a pit of water, and anon she went and filled the bottle, and gave the child to drink, and abode with him, which grew and dwelled in the wilderness, and became there a young man and an archer, and dwelled also in the desert of Paran.  And his mother took to him a wife of the land of Egypt.

That same time said Abimelech, and Phicol the prince of his host, unto Abraham:  Our Lord is with thee in all things that thou doest.  Swear thou by the Lord that thou grieve not me, ne them that shall come after me, ne my kindred, but after the mercy that I have showed to thee, so do to me and to my land in which thou hast dwelled as a stranger.  And Abraham said, I shall swear.  And he blamed Abimelech for the pit of water which his servants had taken away by strength.  Abimelech answered:  I know not who hath done this thing, and thou toldest me not thereof, and I never heard thereof till this day.  And then after this they made covenant together, and promised each to other to be friends together.

After all these things God tempted Abraham, and said to him:  Abraham, Abraham.  He answered and said:  I am here, and he said to him:  Take thou thine only son that thou lovest, Isaac, and go into the land of Vision and offer him in sacrifice to me upon one of the hills that I shall show to thee.  Then Abraham arose in the night, and made ready his ass, and took with him two young men and Isaac his son.  And when they had hewn and gathered the wood together to make sacrifice, they went to the place that God commanded him.  The third day after, he lift up his eyes and saw from afar the place, and he said to his children:  Abide ye here with the ass, I and my son shall go to yonder place, and when we have worshipped there we shall return to you.  Then he took the wood of the sacrifice and laid it on his son Isaac, and he bare in his hands fire and the sword.  And as they went both together, Isaac said to his father:  Father mine.  What wilt thou, my son? said Abraham, and he said:  Lo! here is fire and wood, where is the sacrifice that shall be offered?  Abraham answered:  My son, God shall provide for him a sacrifice well enough.  They went forth and came to the place that God had ordained, and there made an altar, and laid the wood thereon, and took Isaac and set him on the wood on the altar, and took his sword and would have offered him up to God.  And lo! the angel of God cried to him from heaven saying:  Abraham, Abraham, which answered:  I am here, and he said to him:  Extend not thy hand upon my child, and do nothing to him, now I know that thou dreadest God, and hast not spared thine only son for me.  Abraham looked behind him, and saw among the briars a ram fast by the horns, which he took, and offered him in sacrifice for his son.  He called that place:  The Lord