100 Bible Verses About Abraham

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

And the Lord spake unto me, saying,

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.

And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.