16. You were willing to offer the Lord your only son, and so he makes you this solemn promise,
17. “I will bless you and give you such a large family, that some day your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.
18. You have obeyed me, and so you and your descendants will be a blessing to all nations on earth.”
19. Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.
20-23. Abraham's brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. Uz was their firstborn; Buz was next, and then there was Kemuel who became the father of Aram; their other five sons were: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel, who became the father of Rebekah.
24. Nahor also had another wife. Her name was Reumah, and she had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.