Quotes About Legacy

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abrahamís household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

Thus both of Lotís daughters became pregnant by their father.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

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

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

But I will also make a nation of the slave womanís son, because he is your offspring.”

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abrahamís brother Nahor.

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

“Listen to us, sir. You are Godís chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

So Ephronís field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.