Chayei Sara

Sarah dies at a hundred and twenty-seven years in Hebron. Abraham, a stranger among the Hittites, negotiates publicly with Ephron for the cave of Machpelah and its field, weighs out four hundred shekels of silver, and buries Sarah there — the first holding his family owns in the land.

Abraham makes his senior servant swear to find Isaac a wife from his own kindred, not from the daughters of Canaan. At the well outside the city of Nahor, the servant prays for a sign: the young woman who offers water to him and to his camels. Rebekah does exactly that, and proves to be Abraham's grand-niece. Her family agrees, Rebekah herself says "I will go," and she returns with the servant. Isaac, meditating in the field at evening, sees the camels approach; he brings Rebekah into his mother's tent, marries her, and loves her, and is comforted after his mother's death.

Abraham takes another wife, Keturah, and has more sons, but gives all he has to Isaac, sending the others eastward with gifts. He dies at a hundred and seventy-five, and Isaac and Ishmael together bury him beside Sarah in Machpelah. The portion closes with the twelve princes descended from Ishmael, and Ishmael's death at a hundred and thirty-seven.