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See also:ISAAC (See also:Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see See also:ABRAHAM) , the only See also:child of See also:Abraham and Sarah, was See also:born when his parents were respectively a See also:hundred and ninety years of See also:age (Gen. xvii . 17) . Like his See also:father, See also:Isaac lived a nomadic See also:pastoral See also:life, but within much narrower See also:local limits, See also:south of See also:Beersheba (Gen. See also:xxvi., on the incidents here recorded, see See also:ABIMELECH) . After the See also:death of his See also:mother, when he was See also:forty years old, he married Rebekah the Aramaean, by whom after twenty years of married life he became the father of See also:Esau and See also:Jacob . He died at the age of one hundred and eighty.' " Isaac " is used as a synonym for " See also:Israel " by See also:Amos (vii . 9, 16), who also bears See also:witness to the importance of Beersheba as a See also:sanctuary . It was in this See also:district, at the well See also:Beer-Lahai-roi, that Isaac dwelt (Gen. See also:xxiv . 62, See also:xxv . 11), and the See also:place was famous for an incident in the life of Hagar (xvi . 14) . This was perhaps the See also:original See also:scene of the striking See also:episode " in the See also:land of See also:Moriah," when at the last moment he was by angelic interposition released from the See also:altar on which he was about to be sacrificed by his father in obedience to a divine command (Gen. xxii).' The narrative (which must be judged with due regard to the conditions of the age) shows that the See also:sacrifice of the first-born, though not inconsistent with Yahweh's claims (Ex. xxii . 29), was neither required nor tolerated (cp .
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