Almost at the same time, when Abraham was now a hundred years
old, his son Isaac was born. Then Sara expelled the maid-servant
by whom Abraham had had a son; and she is said to have dwelt in
the desert along with her son, and defended by the help of God.
Not long after this, God tried the faith of Abraham, and
required that his son Isaac should be sacrificed to him by his
father. Abraham did not hesitate to offer him, and had already
laid the lad upon the altar, and was drawing the sword to slay
him, when a voice came from heaven commanding him to spare the
young man; and a ram was found at hand to be for a victim. When
the sacrifice was offered, God spoke to Abraham, and promised
him those things which he had already said he would bestow. But
Sara died in her one hundred and twenty-seventh year, and her
body was, through the care of her husband, buried in Hebron, a
town of the Canaanites, for Abraham was staying in that place.
Then Abraham, seeing that his son Isaac was now of youthful 258
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