²¹ But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

² And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

⁵ Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

⁹ By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

⁹ For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

⁶ But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

⁷² To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

⁵⁵ As he gave his word to our fathers.

¹³ If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

⁶ And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

¹ And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

¹¹ And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

² And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

³ And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.