Abraham's servant travels to Nahor to find a wife for Isaac. He prays to God for a sign and Rebekah appears, offering water to him and his camels. The servant gives her gifts and asks if there is room for them to stay the night at her father's house.
# Abraham
Abraham instructs his senior servant to find a wife for his son Isaac from his own relatives and not from the Canaanites. The servant swears an oath to fulfill this task and is assured by Abraham that God will send his angel to help him. If the woman is unwilling to come back, the servant will be released from his oath.
Abraham seeks to buy a burial site for his wife Sarah and negotiates with the Hittites to purchase the cave of Machpelah from Ephron son of Zohar. After some back and forth, Abraham agrees to pay four hundred shekels of silver for the field and cave, which becomes his property.
Abimelek and Phicol acknowledge God's presence with Abraham and make a treaty with him. Abraham complains about a well of water that Abimelek's servants had seized, but they make a deal and Abraham gives Abimelek sheep and cattle. Abraham sets apart seven ewe lambs as a witness that he dug the well, and the place is called Beersheba. Abraham plants a tamarisk tree and stays in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Abraham's wife Sarah asked him to send away Hagar and her son Ishmael. God promised to make Ishmael into a great nation. Hagar and Ishmael wandered in the desert, but God provided water for them. Ishmael grew up to become an archer and his mother found him a wife from Egypt.
Abraham and his wife Sarah stayed in Gerar where he claimed that Sarah was his sister. Abimelek, the king of Gerar, took Sarah but God warned him in a dream that she was a married woman. Abimelek returned Sarah to Abraham and gave him gifts. Abraham explained that he did it out of fear for his life and lack of fear of God in Gerar.
God promises Abraham and Sarah a son, despite their old age. He renames Sarai to Sarah and establishes a covenant with Isaac. Ishmael is also blessed and circumcised along with Abraham and his household.