13:1 Now there were these prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch: ¹  Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, ²  Lucius the Cyrenian, ³  Manaen (a close friend of Herod ⁴  the tetrarch ⁵  from childhood ⁶ ) and Saul. 13:2 While they were serving ⁷  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart ⁸  for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

16:6 Abram said to Sarai, “Since your ¹  servant is under your authority, ²  do to her whatever you think best.” ³  Then Sarai treated Hagar ⁴  harshly, ⁵  so she ran away from Sarai. ⁶ 

16:7 The Lord’s angel ⁷  found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur. ⁸  16:8 He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from ⁹  my mistress, Sarai.”

16:9 Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit ¹⁰  to her authority. 16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, ¹¹  “so that they will be too numerous to count.” ¹² 

20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ¹  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ²  in Gerar,

21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. ²  21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset ³  about the boy or your slave wife. Do ⁴  all that Sarah is telling ⁵  you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. ⁶  21:13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ⁷  some food ⁸  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ⁹  and sent her away. So she went wandering ¹⁰  aimlessly through the wilderness ¹¹  of Beer Sheba.

22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ ⁴  decrees the Lord, ⁵  ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 I will indeed bless you, ⁶  and I will greatly multiply ⁷  your descendants ⁸  so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession ⁹  of the strongholds ¹⁰  of their enemies. 22:18 Because you have obeyed me, ¹¹  all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another ¹²  using the name of your descendants.’”

22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together ¹³  for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. ¹⁴ 

22:20 After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah ¹⁵  also has borne children to your brother Nahor – 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), ¹⁶ 

26:16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, ⁶  for you have become much more powerful ⁷  than we are.” 26:17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley. ⁸  26:18 Isaac reopened ⁹  the wells that had been dug ¹⁰  back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up ¹¹  after Abraham died. Isaac ¹²  gave these wells ¹³  the same names his father had given them. ¹⁴