Quotes About Tradition

And all the men of Abrahamís household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.

But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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.

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.

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

Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

“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.”

Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

The girl ran and told her motherís household about these things.

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

My master made me swear an oath and said, ëYou shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,

but you shall go to my fatherís house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.í

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.í

Then I asked her, ëWhose daughter are you?í She replied, ëThe daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.í So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.