And when He  ¹came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

And behold, a  ¹leper, coming near,  ²worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You can cleanse me.

And stretching out His hand, He  ¹touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed! And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one; but go,  ¹show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

And when He entered into Capernaum, a  ¹centurion came to Him, beseeching Him

And saying, Lord, my servant is lying in the house paralyzed, terribly tormented.

And He said to him, I will come and heal him.

But the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not fit for You to enter under my roof; but only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.

For I also am a man under  ¹authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my slave, Do this, and he does it.

Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who followed, Truly I say to you,  ¹With no one in Israel have I found such great faith.

But I say to you that many will come  ¹from the east and the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the  ²kingdom of the heavens,

But the  ¹sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the  ²outer darkness. In that place there will be the  ³weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

And Jesus said to the centurion, Go. As you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was healed in that hour.

And Jesus, coming into Peter's house, saw  ¹his mother-in-law lying down and in a fever.

And He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served Him.

And when evening fell, they brought to Him  ¹many who were demon possessed, and He cast out the spirits with a word, and  ¹all those who were ill He healed,

So that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,  ¹“He Himself took away our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

 ¹And Jehovah  ²visited Sarah as He had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as He had promised.

And Sarah conceived and  ¹bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him,  ¹Isaac.

And Abraham  ¹circumcised Isaac his son when he was  ²eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

And Sarah said, God has made me laugh; everyone who hears will laugh with me.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.

And the child  ¹grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,  ¹mocking.

So she said to Abraham,  ¹Cast out this maidservant and her son, for the son of this maidservant shall not inherit with my son Isaac.

And the matter displeased Abraham greatly on account of his son.

And God said to Abraham, Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of your maidservant. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

And of the son of the maidservant I will also make a nation, because he is your seed.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a waterskin full of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

When the water in the waterskin was finished, she cast the child under one of the bushes.

And she went and sat herself down opposite him, a fair distance away, about a bowshot away, for she said, Do not let me look upon the death of the child. And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

And God heard the voice of the boy. And the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Rise up; lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand, for I will make of him a great nation.

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a  ¹well of water. And she went and filled the waterskin with water and gave the boy a drink.

And God was with the boy, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

And at that time Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. According to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall do to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.

And Abraham said, I swear it.

And Abraham confronted Abimelech concerning the  ¹well of water which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; and you did not tell me about it, nor have I even heard of it until today.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them made a covenant.

And Abraham set  ¹seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?

And he said, These seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.

Therefore he called that place  ¹Beer-sheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

So they made a  ¹covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up with Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the  ²Philistines.

And  ¹Abraham planted a  ²tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah, the  ³Eternal God.

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

Now after these things God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And He said, Take now your son, your  ¹only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of  ²Moriah, and  ³offer him there as a  ⁴burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

And Abraham  ¹rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

And Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey; and I and the boy will go over there, and we will worship, and then we will return to you.

And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked together.

And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham said, God Himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So the two of them walked on together.

And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.

And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

And the  ¹Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And He said, Do not stretch out your hand upon the boy, nor do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a  ¹ram, caught in the  ²thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering in place of his son.

And Abraham called the name of that place  ¹Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, On the mount of Jehovah  ²it will be provided.

And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham a second time from the heavens

And said, By Myself I have sworn, declares Jehovah: Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your seed like the  ¹stars of the heavens and like the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

And in your  ¹seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.

And after these things it was told Abraham, saying, Milcah has now also borne children to your brother Nahor:

Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram,

And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel;

And Bethuel begot  ¹Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

And the life of Sarah was one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is,  ¹Hebron) in the land of Canaan. And Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Then Abraham rose up from before his dead wife and spoke to the  ¹children of Heth, saying,

I am a stranger and a sojourner among you. Give me the possession of a burial place among you that I may bury my dead wife out of my sight.

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God in our midst. In the  ¹choicest of our burial places bury your dead wife. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead wife.

And Abraham rose up and bowed down to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your desire that I should bury my dead wife out of my sight, hear me, and entreat Ephron the son of Zohar for me,

That he would give me the cave of  ¹Machpelah, which is his and which is at the end of his  ²field. For the full price let him give it to me in your midst for the possession of a burial place.

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, in the hearing of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave that is in it; to you I give it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you; bury your dead wife.

And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, But if you will, please hear me; I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, that I may bury my dead wife there.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Therefore bury your dead wife.

And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah and which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, which were in all its territory, were assured

To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

And the field and the cave that is in it were assured to Abraham for the possession of a burial place from the children of Heth.