⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

¹⁶ and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹⁸ In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

²¹ Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

⁸ By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

²⁴ "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

¹⁹ Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹ > Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, Who walks in his ways.

² For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.

⁴ Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

⁵ May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

¹ Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, Who delights greatly in his commandments.

² His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

²³ Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

⁴ So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.