Quotes About Legacy

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

My masterís wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his motherís death.

Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,

and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

After Abrahamís death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

After this, his brother came out grasping Esauís heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.