Quotes About Family

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

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

So when God had me journey from my fatherís house, I said to Sarah, ëThis is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”í”

for on account of Abrahamís wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelechís household.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

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.

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

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

Moreover, Nahorís concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

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

“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

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

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.”

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.

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