The Book of Abraham called second
1 AND when Abraham was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abraham, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

 5 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

 6 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

 7 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

8 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

 9 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

10 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

 11 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

 12  He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

 13 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

14 Thy wife Sarah shall conceive and bare a son which thou art to reaer as thy own, for it shall be of my flesh and hers

15 I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

 16 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and mourned and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

 17 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! I shall be shamed at this Lord!

18 Abraham what I shall call blessing thou calleth shame!

19 Remember my son, the vision of my home that thou didst behold?

20 Yea, Lord I do
 

21 Kolob shall reign on earth and Isaac shall be the first among many who shall bring my cause to pass. For in Him will be my blood , an immortality which will survive the Days of Burnings  which shall come to pass in the Latter-days. Though his mortal flesh shall die, his body will ressurrect for the final battle which must come in those days.

 22 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant of light with him for an everlasting covenant And with his seed after him., they shall receive thy inheritance, but of my seed thru thee shall receive my inheritance. For thou shalt be his father until I call him to his place with me.

 23 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation  For his mortality is of no consequence to my greater plan nonetheless his seed shall be great thus fullfilling my promise to thee. His seed shall curse the nations and chastise the seed of the disobedient.

24  But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, my son, which Sarah shall bear unto thee for my sake at this set time in the next year.

 25 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

26 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him

 27 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 28 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

 29 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

 30 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.














 AND the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfor• ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did not eat for the calf had been boiled in its mother’s milk which in His eyes was abominable.

And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Sarah remembering the covenant which she hath made with Elohim the Most High resigned to her heart that her day had come.

 Therefore Sarah rejoiced within herself, saying to Abraham ,After I am waxed old I shall have pleasure, my Lord God placing his seed within me .

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

 ¶ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will surely destroy it for t the tens  shall receive their glories at my side .

 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.


 AND the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Thus the Lord Elohim did enter Sarahs tent and become one flesh with her. And from that day forth did Sarahs wisdom grow as the ancient ones.

 For Sarah conceived, and bare a son at the set time of which God had spoken .

 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck?
 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, knowing by her spirit that which must be done..

 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac for his path hath been chosen and Isaacs path is set for much glory.

 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight for he had married Hagar and come to love her much .

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall my seed be called and in Ishmael shalt you be multiplied, the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and wrote a letter of divorcement, took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation and from his loins shall a prophet rise to bring his seed to my law.

 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

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

 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

 And Abraham said, I will swear.

 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

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

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

 And Abraham worshipped the everlasting God, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.


 AND it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

 And he said, Take now my son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

  And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld to commit bloodshed, even at my will.

 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead Isaac.

 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld from obeying my voice:

 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice

 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

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

 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

  And it came to pass that Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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

Hear us, my lord: thou art a• mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

7And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure

 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that 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: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.And the presence of the Lord overcame that place before the eyes of Abraham did the Lord God mourn for Sarah.

 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.