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Ask a QuestionAnd Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!"
"Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
"See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."
"Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized.
Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
"Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
And the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher."
And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."
Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Then the man came to the house. And he unloaded the camels, and provided straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
'behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass that when the virgin comes out to draw water, and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
"But before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah, coming out with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.
This is the sum of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.
Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.