Eliezer is sent to find a wife (Rebekah) for Isaac.

Abraham's wife, Sarah, dies. Sarah is buried at Machpelah.

Isaac is offered by Abraham as a human sacrifice, but God stops the sacrifice.

The birth of the son of promise, Isaac.

Abraham says his wife is his sister.

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lots daughters decide to get their father drunk so they can become pregnant by their father.

Abraham meets with three men (one of them being the preincarnate Jesus).These tell Abraham and Sarah about them having a baby in their old age. Sarah laughed in her head concerning this information and one of the three men called her on her lack of faith. The men are going to Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy it and Abraham asks if they will spare the cities if only a few righteous are found.

God explains and institutes the sign of the covenant, circumcision. Abraham circumcises all of the male members of his household from eight days old and up.

Sarai has not been able to have children. She tells her husband Abraham to go ahead and have a child with her handmaid, Hagar, which she can count as her own. When Hagar had conceived, she began to look down on Sarai for being barren. Hagar runs away because of Sarai speaking roughly to her. The Lord confronts Hagar and tells her to go back to Sarai. Hagar has a baby and names him Ishmael according as God had said.

Abraham asks God if his servant Eliezer can be his heir as God's promise. However, God states that Eliezer will not be Abraham's heir, but only the son that is born of Abraham and Sarah. God makes a covenant with himself as a promise to Abraham that he will have an heir and become the forefather of a great nation.